facebook spying on us?

[jason.duerstock at gallaudet.edu (Jason Duerstock)]

Use 'netstat -ao' to see which process(es) they are associated with.
Then use a sniffer to see what actual traffic they carry.

Jason

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Glen Kent <glen.kent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see that i have multiple TCP sessions established with facebook.
> They come up even after i reboot my laptop and dont login to facebook!
>
> D:\Documents and Settings\gkent>netstat -a | more
>
> Active Connections
>
> ?Proto ?Local Address ? ? ? ? ?Foreign Address ? ? ? ?State
> ?TCP ? ?gkent:3974 ? ?www-10-02-snc5.facebook.com:http ?ESTABLISHED
> ?TCP ? ?gkent:3977 ? ?www-11-05-prn1.facebook.com:http ?ESTABLISHED
> ?TCP ? ?gkent:3665
> a184-84-111-139.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com:http ?ESTABLISHED
>
> [clipped]
>
> Any idea why these connections are established (with facebook and
> akamaitechnologies) and how i can kill them? Since my laptop has
> several connections open with facebook, what kind of information is
> flowing there?
>
> I also wonder about the kind of servers facebook must be having to be
> able to manage millions of TCP connections that must be terminating
> there.
>
> Glen
>
>