wierd connection entrees

I was browsing tcpview and noticed some strange connections, all I have connected is firefox.. what could it be?

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/1951/untitled3os.png

I didnt have time to capture all entrees.

a-xx-xxx-xx-xx.deploy.akamaitechnologies.net

I tried looking at it in firefox but it didnt connect..

 

Akamai Technologies servers host content for many sites on the Internet. So these connections are nothing to worry about.

Regards,

CrazyM

 

many sites on the internet aren't trusthworthy and I dont have anything explicitly open except firefox. but a system process seems to be connecting to that particular spot..?

 

aXX-XXX-XX-XX.deploy.akamaitechnologies.net (XX.XXX.XX.XX)


(69.224.0.0 - 69.239.255.255)



SBC Internet Services
2701 W 15th St PMB 236
Plano, TX
US


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By chance do you have a Program that is set to Auto Update ?

 

By the way....I am in agreement with CM on this.......Akamai Technologies servers are so large they are overwhelming......but have never heard of their servers being hacked or used by a hacker........

 

It was most likely a site that you were browsing with Firefox that was getting some of it's content from an Akamai server.

Those particular entries will show as being associated to System because they are in the process of closing and no longer associated to an active connection or your browser. If you watch your connections as they go through this process you will see them initially associated to your browser (application) and then as they start to go through the closing phase, shift to being associated with System.

Regards,

CrazyM

 

SBC Internet Services is my ISP.. and I did have autoupdate but i disabled it for norton, It could of been

I noticed that too..

okay.. thanks, for the explaination aka:snowman and CrazyM