[X-Newbies] Possible Trojan

[Chris Walker]

Hi Rob: 

Thanks for this Rob.  I was coming round to the idea that they probably
weren't malicious.  They say a little knowledge is dangerous and
watching the packets and connections using Interarchy is a bit off-
putting if you don't know what's going on.

Happy Christmas/Happy holidays to you all.

regards,

Chris
>
>217.12.3.11: I did a "whois 217.12.3.11" in Terminal, which showed  
>that IP to be owned by Yahoo Europe. 
>
>224.0.0.251: Again, "whois 224.0.0.251" shows that IP to be owned by  
>IANA, the group that's responsible for all the "numbers" associated  
>with the internet (IP blocks, DNS, etc.). That specific IP claims to  
>be "reserved for special purposes," and to see RFC 3171 for  
>additional information. Looking that RFC up on the net (http:// 
>www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3171.html) shows that IP number is in a section  
>reserved for IPv4 Multicast, and more specifically, it's in use as a  
>"local network control block."
>
>Now most of that latter one is gibberish to me, too ... but in short,  
>I don't think either of those IPs are malcontents :).