NIS reported outbound attempt

Can someone explain this?

Date: 11/05/2002 Time: 9:21:09
This one time, the user has chosen to "block" communications. Details:
Outbound TCP connection
Remote address,service is (infinisource.com,http)
Process name is "$) "

 

I am beginning to wonder if it might be cookie related as every time I log on here it keeps telling me the last time I visited was 11-4 at 8:39. I have been here at least six times today.

I see everyone else is as puzzled as I.

 

Infinisource is WindowBBS's "daddy ". The alert is (probably) the result of a BBS page "steering" your browser towards an Infinisource server - for ad-serving (or similar) purposes. I'm sure that Arie will be able to confirm the exact reason.

IMO, you need to loosen NIS's ruleset a tad and permit TCP (outgoing) for IE (iexplore.exe) over ports 80, 8080, 3128, 443, 20, 21 to any remote address type.

I'm not sure how to twiddle these settings in NIS. If you run in to difficulties, post back and I'm sure that BillyBob or one of the other NIS users here will point you in the right direction.

HTH.

 

I've been using NIS for well over a year with no problem. I recently put windowsbbs in the trusted site, but I do have several urls for pop ups in the blocked section of NIS under advanced tab. Not sure if that makes a difference or not. It is only the second time I have had any outbound attempts that were not legit and the other time it was the same process name.
I deleted all my cookies recently but did not deltree the index.dat file so maybe it came from there. Not really worried, just like to follow thru on these things.