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cjclm7

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[SOLVED] Microsoft's owned IP on Cinnamon's Desktop Environment?

I have installed Archlinux and Cinnamon Desktop Environment

When I check the established connections to my system:
     $ sudo lsof -i -P | grep -e ESTABLISHED -e LISTEN

I find this output:
    cinnamon    962  ccm   24u  IPv4 12243465      0t0  TCP arch-intel:34022->40.115.22.134:443 (ESTABLISHED)

When I check whois this IP I get the info it is registred to MICROSOFT...
I find this annoying since I am using Archlinux and have installed only packages from pacman.
No Microsoft software is allowed on my Linux machine.

I use 2 web browsers (Gnome Web and Firefox) and have disabled Bing and Google search engines on both.

Does anyone has any idea why I have this established connection from this IP to my machine?

Last edited by cjclm7 (2022-08-19 16:23:54)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Microsoft's owned IP on Cinnamon's Desktop Environment?

from this IP to my machine?

You have that backwards.  Some software you are running accesses a cloud server that happens to use a Microsoft Azure resource.  What is PID 962?

FYI, using a inflammatory title on your very first post is not really a good way to introduce yourself here.

Last edited by Trilby (2022-07-13 11:34:03)

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cjclm7

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Re: [SOLVED] Microsoft's owned IP on Cinnamon's Desktop Environment?

$ ps aux | grep 962
    ccm 962  1.8  0.7 4762496 243640 ?      Sl   Jul12  11:14 cinnamon --replace

FYI, using a inflammatory title on your very first post is not really a good way to introduce yourself here.

Noted, title updated accordingly

Last edited by cjclm7 (2022-07-13 02:19:03)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Microsoft's owned IP on Cinnamon's Desktop Environment?

http://40.115.22.134 currently gets me a "cryptocompare" webpage, but cryptocompare.com has https and a valid certificate and is resolved to cloudflare hosts.
=> it's gonna be some shitty extension/applet/widget…let you installed and it's most likely about shitcoins.

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cjclm7

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Re: [SOLVED] Microsoft's owned IP on Cinnamon's Desktop Environment?

I've switched from Cinnamon DE to Gnome DE and issue disappeared.
Most probably it was some browser's installed extension/applet/widget as "seth" mentioned