On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 06:43:49PM +0530, Glen Kent wrote: :Hi, : :I see that i have multiple TCP sessions established with facebook. :They come up even after i reboot my laptop and dont login to facebook! : :D:\Documents and Settings\gkent>netstat -a | more : :Active Connections : : Proto Local Address Foreign Address State : TCP gkent:3974 www-10-02-snc5.facebook.com:http ESTABLISHED : TCP gkent:3977 www-11-05-prn1.facebook.com:http ESTABLISHED : TCP gkent:3665 :a184-84-111-139.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com:http ESTABLISHED : :[clipped] : :Any idea why these connections are established (with facebook and :akamaitechnologies) and how i can kill them? Since my laptop has :several connections open with facebook, what kind of information is :flowing there? : :I also wonder about the kind of servers facebook must be having to be :able to manage millions of TCP connections that must be terminating :there. : :Glen : For the more paranoid open source users, I have found using the xxxterm web browser to help quite a bit. You can read about it at http://www.xxxterm.org