Re: Does this look familiar?

[Bill_Royds () pch gc ca]

Some more information about the Conducent "advertiser supported software" scheme
is at
http://www.pkware.com/support/tsadbotfaq.html
The shareware version of PKZIP (2.7.0) uses this which is why it is at pkware.

> From expereicne, you can block port 17027 without much problem, but if you block
communication with thos ads.conducent.,com IP numbers, the  Conducent AdGateway
bot  frantically tries to call home continually at 10 or more connect attempts a
second.