That sounds like I'm running a Torrent and no one asked if it was OK. They're using our computers and network to make other people's uploads faster. UPDATE: Looks like this is using my own computers bandwidth to upload to other Akamai users. At least with Evil Toolbars I can see them. Whatever program installed it should have told me first before chaining it in. Has a customer bill of rights online with details with test demo pages about their API.Has a control panel icon and a Read Me with lots of info about what it does (except who installed them).Has an uninstall available in Installed Programs.Is known to be used by folks like Netflix, etc to speed up downloads.That's my #1 suspect right now as it's the only thing that I ran as Administrator that day.įor now, I'll keep it on my machine because it: The only thing I installed on my machine on the 11th was an automatic update to Adobe Flash. At least it's a Delayed Start so it doesn't slow down my boot. Running services.msc from Start | Run tells me that this runs as an Automatic Service. Are they or one of the companies that uses them going to update this client and cert soon? I wonder if someone needs to tell Akamai that their freshly installed service that just (kinda, a little) snuck on my system has a digital certificate that expires in 5 weeks. Looks like this was recently installed automatically by something, perhaps Flash or Adobe Acrobat. Well, they have a legitimate digital signature, interestingly they signed this on the 11th of November. Kind of the first large Content Distribution Network or CDN.Īm I sure it's them and not someone evil trying to fake me out? Right click on netsession_win.exe, then Properties. They are a download accelerator used by lots of companies. Hm, that dropped me into C:\Users\scottha\AppData\Local\Akamai. This little tip is often enough to jog your memory and go, "Oh, THAT." You can always right click on suspicious processes and click Open File Location. Ok, what's this? It's the Akamai Net Session Interface. Recently I was checking out the Task Manager (right click on the clock, and select Task Manager or press Ctrl-Alt-Del and click Task Manager) and noticed TWO copies of "netsession_win.exe" running with a peak memory working set of about 25 megs. I know my system backwards and forwards and I do not like noticing stuff running in the background that I don't recognize.
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