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?
