I discovered a trojan on my computer today trying to reach Akamai

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

servers...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai

Akamai Technologies
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. Image:Akamai_logo.gif
Type: Public (NASDAQ: AKAM)
Founded: 1995
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Key people George H. Conrades, Chairman
Paul L. Sagan, President & CEO
Industry Internet Software & Services
Products Content and Application Delivery
Application-Performance Services
On-demand-managed services
Business Performance-Management Services
Revenue $283.115 Million USD (2005)
Net income $327.998 Million USD (2005)
Employees 784 (2005)
Website www.akamai.com

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a corporation that provides, among other services, global Internet content caching. The company was founded by a then-MIT graduate student, Daniel Lewin, along with MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Leighton still serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist. Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning "intelligent" or "clever." Beyond the name, the company has no ties with Hawaii.

Akamai's customers include American Express, Yahoo!, AOL Radio, Symantec, Match.com, Google, Microsoft, FedEx, BBC News website, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Xerox, iVillage, Apple Computer, Music Television (MTV), the United States Geological Survey, the White House, Reuters, Newegg.com, and XM Radio. A list of more customers can be found on <1> Akamai's Website

Arabic news network Al-Jazeera was a customer from March 28, 2003 until April 2, 2003, when Akamai decided to end the brief relationship.



My tin foil is getting painful. Why would they be sending my surfing habits to their servers rather than their client's?