I need to create a FAQ on these sorts of things, it comes up over and over again.
Our server is configured to attempt to connect to you via multiple ports/connections. This is the most efficient way to send you a complex web page...
for example, if we open 10 connections on 10 different ports and stream you HTML and images through these parallel connections, it's much more
efficient than one connection. Hyper-sensitive firewall settings can interpret this type of access as a "port scan" or intrusion attempt because you
suddenly receive more than one connection from one source.
Jedi_master...
None of these are connected to ATS in any way...
202.97.238.131 port 4081 --> Hei Long Jiang province education committee
61.180.228.245 port 1030 --> Qing An Zhang Hong Wei netbar
71.232.95.92 port 15118 --> Comcast Cable Communications, Inc
222.231.24.219 port 4899 -->
madness
70.167.254.214 port 1025 --> Cox Communications Inc
It seems your IP is getting some odd activity. Send me a u2u as to who your provider as and I can look up a couple things for you.
twitchy...
Yes, I've considered you exceptionally disruptive for not accepting a common sense explanation here:
ATS Installs Dos Application??
And for some odd reason, escalated here:
NSA Web Site Puts 'Cookies' on Computers
If you're making baseless accusations about the operations of ATS, even when the reality was explained to you, it certainly comes across as an
attempt at pure disruption. I'm wide open to learning different, but the surface story tells me otherwise.
In any event, we've always, and will always respond quickly to any member concerns over these types of issues on ATS. We've always understood our
member's concerns for their computing privacy (we don't keep server logs) as well as sensitivity to computer security. If any of our advertising
networks is doing something funky, we need to know as
we will call them to task and disable their ads.
We've also assigned a refresh to the ad server to display a new ad every 40-50 seconds... this might be way your suddenly seeing pings while sitting
idle.