Mysterious SSL exchange

[sumthinelse]

I bought a computer from IBM, with win2k installed. I noticed that every time I power it up it in win2k, it exchanges a bunch of SSL (secure socket layer) data with www-3.boulder.ibm.com. It doesn't start a new process when it does this - it may have a DLL hooked into the system.

I would write an email to the Boulder IBM site to ask them what this SSL exchange is doing, but that site is not reachable from my browser, I guess because my home machine is not inside the IBM corporate network.

Has anybody seen anything like this?

 

[ainwood]

Quite a lot of software does that now-adays

It might just be looking for bios or software updates.

 

[sumthinelse]

Originally posted by ainwood
Quite a lot of software does that now-adays

It might just be looking for bios or software updates.

Probably. It would be nice if they notified me before they started sending data in such a sneaky way....