Weird connection to ads.forbes.com:8081

From: Rubio (jtnim@hotmail.com)
Date: 03/26/02 

From: jtnim@hotmail.com (Rubio)
Date: 26 Mar 2002 07:29:01 -0800

I was using an old laptop to configure a firewall and noticed that the
laptop tried to connect to port 8081 on ads.forbes.com (63.240.4.212).
Does anyone have any idea what application might be doing this and
what web page this is?

Here's the syslog:

%PIX-4-106023: Deny tcp src inside:192.168.1.7/1139 dst
outside:63.240.4.212/8081 by access-group "acl_out"

On a related note, is there an application for WinNT/2000 platform
that would log all connections including information about what
application initiated the connection?

Thanks!

-- Rubio

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