Re: strange behaviour with konqueror & youtube
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:23:28PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> Dear security team,
>
> please excuse if I am too paranoid. I found a strange behavior with konqueror.
>
>
> If you do this:
>
> 1. Go to a website
> 2. from there go to a link which points to a youtube video.
> 3. start the video
> 4. Close konqueror by the cross in the upper right corner.
>
> You then will see, that the process "konqueror" is not killed, as it should.
> After a while you will see a lot of network traffic and a lot of connections to
> servers from cloudfront.net and some others.
>
> The traffic is https encrypted, so I cannot see, what is sent, but it is a lot
> (full upload bandwith).
>
> I do not believe, I have a malware, as I am very courious and only install
> packages from the debian repo.
>
> But of course, I maybe too paranoid...
>
> However, I think, you should know.
Thing I would like to know, is which "mediaplayer" is being used.
> Best regards
> Hans
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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