I didn't think of RedHat as a virus

[Net Llama!]

That would be the redhat network server, prolly checking to see if there 
are any updates available.

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I'm monitoring some of my local network traffic for another reason,
> and the first thing I saw surprised me.  It appears to be a very
> quick HTTPS conversation between one of my machines and the host
>    xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com.  (216.148.218.160)
> 
> My machine at this moment had NO browsers open, only xterms and
> a Java application for which I have the source code.  I was not
> conscious of any daemons that need to contact RedHat.  Anybody
> know what this might be?
> 
> Partial trace is attached.  It was cut-and-paste from the xterm
> where I ran the program, so I can't get any more information than
> this, but presumably this will happen again.

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