Re: virus? worm?

Thought I posted this last night, but I accidentally hit reply instead
of reply-all.

Looks like someone else had also figured out it was Abbyphone causing my
problem.

Now I'm starting to wonder if I really had a problem, or if someone was
just attempting to call me and I didn't have things configured properly.

A hitch I had run into with it is that when using it behind a natted
gateway is that it wants your external IP address and for you to
configure port forwarding in the gateway. I was attempting to set it up
on my laptop and it's portable. I generally have at least 2 different
external IPs a day and I only have authorization to configure ports on 1
of them.

Jim

Jim Gribbin wrote:
> 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 10:14:08 2006