Are Toshiba Notebooks 'Phoning Home'?

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 19, 2001 @06:45AM from the just-saying-hi-to-the-folks dept.

Tangential notes puzzledly: "At our company (software consulting) we equip our consultants with Toshiba notebooks. I received this message today from one of our consultants who was just upgraded to a new Satellite Pro 4300 ... 'My new Toshiba laptop appears to call home. While working on something else I opened port 1214 on my firewall and started monitoring it with a packet sniffer. To my amazement, I see my laptop communicating with a Toshiba server on that port. Are you guys aware of this?'... Has anybody else seen this behavior? Is this some new 'support' feature? Does anybody care?" Curious Toshiba notebooks owners, speak up!

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Dunno if this has anything to do with it but... by True+Dork · 2001-07-19 06:45 · Score: 4

port 1214 is also the port used by KaZaA and MusicCity's Morpheus for the direct semi-gnutella style communication for the file sharing network. Are you running either? Is it possible that it was a coincidence that you were on this system as well as someone from Toshiba?
Is it "VirtualTech"? by Lish · 2001-07-19 04:18 · Score: 4

Perhaps it has something to do with this? The 4300 is listed as one of the models it's installed on. Might be a starting place to look, anyway. Here is a "white paper" on it.

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