Re: virus? worm?

Got it figured out already. Dee posted a link to an article on cross
platform voip extensions for mozilla/firefox/thunderbird a couple of
weeks ago. Specifically - Abbyphone.

I installed the Thunderbird one to tinker with, but hadn't actually done
anything with it yet. I guess some cracker figured out an application
for it before I did.

As soon as I got rid of the extension, my problem went away.

Jim G

Jim Gribbin wrote:
> I'm having something going on with the windows 2000 side of my dual
> laptop. Seems to have to do with Thunderbird.
>
> As soon as I fire up the mail client, it starts sending out data at the
> maximum upload speed of my DSL connection.
>
> I've tried using Google to run down the situation, but not having much
> luck.
>
> I appear to be sending out UDP packets from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9000 to
> 82.85.18.90:5060 Somewhere in the Netherlands.
>
> I've tried uninstalling Thunderbird and re-installing - no help.
>
> I have anti-virus and a firewall running. I'm also behind a nated
> gateway.
>
> Good thing I have Linux available too, but I need the Windows side
> available for work.
>
> Jim
>
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Received on Sun Nov 12 09:57:15 2006