Google calling home from my system, what is the package?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:04 -0700, stan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been noticing that my modem lights would flash as if receiving or
> sending data when the system was idle for IO.  I could never find what
> was doing this.
> 
> Today I happened to have iftop running and noticed the modem lights
> flashing.  I was able to find the domain name of the other end of the
> interaction - nuq04s01-in-f132.e100.net.  I did a ping and then a whois
> lookup on the IP address 74.125.19.132 and it turns out this is
> google.  
> 
> I don't want such calling home occurring on my system. How can I find
> out what is doing this and eliminate it or stop it from calling home?

Use "netstat --protocol inet" to see what ports at your end are being
used for this. Copy the "Local Address" field into "lsof -i @<address>"
to see what process is doing it.

poc