I tried doing a netstat on it, but on windows the that came up blank, I have not tried that with the linux box since things are being forwarded through it.

should I send this to abuse@yahoo.com?

as for the telnet and the utility you talked about that is a good idea, I coudl easily write a perl script for it (I probably hav eit already) but then again I have been nominated as having written 'one of the most useless' perl scripts before on comp.os.linux.security

the pay bills online button got to me though. My parents just got on the net, and I don't think they are savy enough to dodge something like that had it been an actualu fake site. It was there the first time I saw the page, but then checked yahoo and didn't see it. .. upon later dates that I saw this page it didn't have it anymore, it must have been yahoo that offered online billing thing and taken it down. . . .

It still irks me Microsoft would let websites do things like change homepages, though it might be an exploit that Microsoft did not intend.

-Justin Kelly