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Hi Bret,
<div class="">There are several tools and techniques that you can use here. One is
<b class=""><i class="">netstat</i></b>, which can give you information about where your data is going. Netstat may not give you the detailed info you require, so you could try using tools like Wireshark and network miner(both free, and both run on Linux) to
get more details. I would especially recommend network miner. Of course, you should also do what Ralf said and look to see if you are running any new applets, or any phone accounts. </div>
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<div class="">Best of luck,</div>
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<div class="">On Oct 17, 2015, at 5:50 PM, <<a href="mailto:silver.bullet@zoho.com" class="">silver.bullet@zoho.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:silver.bullet@zoho.com" class="">silver.bullet@zoho.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Hi Bret,<br class="">
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the kind of addresses involved usually leads to the culprit. You can<br class="">
monitor Internet traffic and see the addresses using Wireshark.<br class="">
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Assumed you should be a Firefox user, then only open Firefox and<br class="">
Wireshark.<br class="">
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Then search for "google" in Firefox's <a href="about:config" class="">about:config</a> and delete all<br class="">
default google entries.<br class="">
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Monitor Firefox with Wireshark again.<br class="">
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Are you running any update daemons? Are you running phone home<br class="">
software, e.g. Sylpheed without disabling phone home or Ardour not from<br class="">
official repositories? Are you using what Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu<br class="">
Spyware? Even a weather applet gets information from the Internet.<br class="">
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The phone home phenomena isn't just an issue for your iPhone, it's also<br class="">
reality for many Linux applications and in addition Ubuntu is disputed<br class="">
regarding what Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu Spyware.<br class="">
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First rule out that you are not carelessly using software such as<br class="">
Firefox from official repositories, before searching unknown spyware.<br class="">
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Regards,<br class="">
Ralf<br class="">
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