Re: fedwu.windowsupdate.com "Fed WU" ?

From: Die Spammer !! (diespammer@loser.fu)
Date: 12/21/01


From: "Die Spammer !!" <diespammer@loser.fu>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 07:35:11 GMT


Manny wrote:

> On 21 Dec 2001 12:12:13 -0500, fedwu@fedwu.fedwu.com (fedwu) wrote:
>
> >Has anyone seen this host or IP show up in their traffic logs? Does
> >anyone else's use of Windows Update result in a connection to fedwu?
>
> Found it myself just now:
>
> TCP workstation: 2961 fedwu.windowsupdate.com:
> http ESTABLISHED
> TCP workstation: 2964 fedwu.windowsupdate.com:
> http ESTABLISHED
>
> Killed the connection. If anyone else has an idea or knows what this
> is I'd be interested myself.

Using Sam Spade I noticed that fedwu.windowsupdate.com resolves to
multiple addresses: 207.68.131.20, 207.68.131.21, 207.46.106.80,
207.46.106.81



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