[Adium-devl] Fwd: adiumxtras site

[Andre-John Mas]

Not sure if this is relavent:

http://www.auditmypc.com/port/tcp-port-49000.asp

On 26-Feb-07, at 05:41 , Colin Barrett wrote:

> I just got my email back up today (thanks, Mail.app cache!), and I
> found this in my inbox.
>
> Any one have any clue what this is?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: "Buckingham" <chrisb at csr.net>
>> Date: February 24, 2007 8:27:24 AM PST
>> To: <colin at adiumx.com>
>> Subject: adiumxtras site
>> Reply-To: chrisb at csr.net
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Recently I downloaded Adium to try it instead of Proteus, so far I
>> find the configurability just as good. In order to get more visual
>> versatility I tried to go to the recommended extras site
>> adiumxtras.com.
>>
>> There was a problem connecting and on further research I found that
>> when I try to connect to the extras site it forwards to the site
>> redux.adiumx.com (75.126.12.28), which tries to initiate a
>> connection back to me on a high port (49000 - 54000 TCP). Can you
>> explain this and why this system needs to initiate a seperate
>> connection to me instead of just responding to my browser request
>> (stateful)?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Christopher Buckingham
>
>
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