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Windows reporting hotmail addresses?

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tratan:
About a year ago, I was on a Win98 computer at school and had downloaded an evaluation of a packet sniffer to pass the time during a C++ class.  While I wasn't running telnet or ftp or anything, I noticed packets were still being sent and received.  I opened an outbound packet and scanned it; it was mostly illegible of course, but near the beginning there was a hotmail address in cleartext!  I tried to identify the destination ip but couldn't get any useful information about it, and the destination didn't respond on the telnet, ftp and http ports.  I sent an email to the email address, but it was dead.  Wierd... I'm going to do some more tests soon about windows broadcasting hotmail addresses.  I can't figure out why the computer was sending it out, since Microsoft already knows who's using it's service, but perhaps it had something to do with Hotmail's excessive spam?

choasforages:
ummm, somebody was probably checking there mail in class, i do it all teh time

tratan:
There wasn't anyone else in the room at the time, and the message seemed to be coming from the computer I was at anyway.

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