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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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