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Is Smartdefrag spying on us?


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Posted

Hello,

 

I have noticed that Smartdefrag establishes a TCP connection on local port 1212. The remote port is 80 and the IP number is 75.126.209.241.

 

Since I can't figure out why this is necessary in order to defrag my hard drive, I regard this as spying.

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Iobituser

Posted

No it is not!!!

 

Hello Iobituser,

 

You may have noticed that the right panel of ISD is for news and ads like in AWC.

 

When ISD is started, it tries to connect to: http://www.iobit.com/SmartDefrag/info-isd.html to get the current info from iobitlive com.

 

Here is the Node Name info for 75.126.209.241:

 

Registrar: DIRECT INFORMATION PVT LTD D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM

Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com

Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com

Name Server: NS1.IOBITLIVE.COM

Name Server: NS2.IOBITLIVE.COM

Status: clientDeleteProhibited

Status: clientTransferProhibited

Status: clientUpdateProhibited

Updated Date: 02-mar-2008

Creation Date: 09-apr-2007

Expiration Date: 09-apr-2009

>>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:27:17 UTC <<<

 

and Network info:

 

OrgName: SoftLayer Technologies Inc.

OrgID: SOFTL

Address: 1950 N Stemmons Freeway

City: Dallas

StateProv: TX

PostalCode: 75207

Country: US

ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.softlayer.com:4321

NetRange: 75.126.0.0 - 75.126.255.255

CIDR: 75.126.0.0/16

OriginAS: AS36351

NetName: SOFTLAYER-4-3

NetHandle: NET-75-126-0-0-1

Parent: NET-75-0-0-0-0

NetType: Direct Allocation

NameServer: NS1.SOFTLAYER.COM

NameServer: NS2.SOFTLAYER.COM

Comment: abuse@softlayer.com

RegDate: 2006-05-12

Updated: 2007-11-14

RAbuseHandle: ABUSE1025-ARIN

RAbuseName: Abuse

RAbusePhone: +1-214-442-0605

RAbuseEmail: abuse@softlayer.com

RNOCHandle: IPADM258-ARIN

RNOCName: IP Admin

RNOCPhone: +1-214-442-0600

RNOCEmail: ipadmin@softlayer.com

RTechHandle: IPADM258-ARIN

RTechName: IP Admin

RTechPhone: +1-214-442-0600

RTechEmail: ipadmin@softlayer.com

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE1025-ARIN

OrgAbuseName: Abuse

OrgAbusePhone: +1-214-442-0605

OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@softlayer.com

OrgTechHandle: IPADM258-ARIN

OrgTechName: IP Admin

OrgTechPhone: +1-214-442-0600

OrgTechEmail: ipadmin@softlayer.com

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-03-01 19:10

 

 

When it is a question it is OK, but when you regard this as spying, it is a bit unfare to IObit.

 

There was Urchintracker in that html page a while ago, which is to count the hits of a web page and harmless, they have even taken that out.

 

Now, may I ask you to reconsider it if it is spying.

 

Thank you and cheers.

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