You can learn enough about iptables to use your firewall for blocking 
traffic to and from those sites.  Maybe you'll then find some image you're 
used to seeing will vanish.

Steven Yellin

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, g wrote:

> greetings,
>
> for some time, i have been noticing network traffic when i open firefox.
>
> my 'round to it' finally installed wireshark and i have found that i
> have data transfers with to sites.
>
> #1 - 72.167.239.239 = godaddy.com
> #2 - 82.103.148.40  = easyspeedy.com
>
> i have no firefox add-ons related to above and have never loaded anything
> that should be causing these connections.
>
> i tried putting name in '/etc/hosts' file to send them to '127.0.0.1',
> but this did not work, so i am presuming that what ever is causing
> connections is doing so by address and not by name lookup.
>
> anyone know of above two and what i can do to eliminate them?
>
> any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> tia.
>
> -- 
>
> peace out.
>
> tc.hago,
>
> g
> .
>
> ****
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> **
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