Has my internet connection been hijacked?
Am currently in Thailand, a country known for its various attempts to censure/control the internet.
Am using a domestic ordinary adsl connection. Sometimes the connection seems to freeze when loading web pages, and when i check with tcpview, i find that there a a number of connections from IE to a server run by the ISP. The server name varies, but is always <something>.tttmaxnet.com
I cannot find out why these connections are being made. Have run exhaustive spywarechecks/virus checks that have found nothing.
I have no idea why this should happen when i am loading pages from, for example, BBC News.
I have tried blocking by putting entries in the hosts file, but that doesn't stop it.
Is it adverstising downloading (not that i can see any advertising that is Thai based) or is it more sinister?
Any ideas on how to progress?