Has my internet connection been hijacked?

[stickyb]

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?

[Guest 112233]

Assuming that you are using IE 7 - have a look a the very top Box, i.e the one that displays the actual domain name of the site that you are visiting, e.g http://www.pprune.org/forums/newreply and see if the result is actually what you are expecting. It's possible to spoof web pages, but as far as I know domain names are unique. Check you home page domain as well - Are you using a phishing filter ?. copy those domain names into google and see if anything comes up

CATIII-NDB.

Thanks:hmm:

[BOAC]

If IE6 or earlier or an 'early' Firefox', check 'SpoofStick' which does the same and shows the ACTUAL site.

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Are you absolutely certain that your ISP is not simply applying the bog standard practice of proxying HTTP requests?

[stickyb]

Bit more info - I am using IE6, and already have spoofstick installed, so I know i am not going to any phishing or false pages.

The ISP uses a normal transparent proxy, but you normally don't see that in the TCP/VIEW.

One worrying thing is that some of the connections are when i am accessing a site like paypal with https.

Have double checked everything with AV, Spybot and hijack this, nothing found.

[paxcommuter]

It maybe caused by a third party add-on.

Try Tools | Internet Options. Click the Programs Tab, then Manage Add-ons. You can disable any unwanted add-ons from there.

[Bushfiva]

Are you using AVG 8.xx?