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I'll disable it and see what shakes out. Good luck all. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Michael CS. Upon automatic reboot, I got a Windows Security alert, advising that Windows firewall has blocked some features of Akamai NetSession Client on public and provate networks This thread is locked.

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Le Boule MVP. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. It is used by many software and media publishers to deliver files or streams to you. In reply to Le Boule's post on August 7, Akamai does not come right out and say it, but the reason NetSession is installed on your computer is to allow them to use your computer to "upstream" content to other users.

By installing NetSession, you are allowing Akamai to use your idle bandwidth to upload files to other Akamai users. They say that NetSession will only use your computer when it is "idle or utilizing minimal network resources. And since bandwidth usage varies from second to second, that info must be sent up to Akamai a lot. Wait a minute, didn't they just say they only captured the sort of info that web servers capture? Web servers don't capture info on bandwidth use.

What other information does Akamai capture? I could not find any specifics on their site. So if you install NetSession, you will be joining a peer-to-peer network, and allowing Akamai to deliver files from your computer at times when Akamai deems you to be utilizing your bandwidth minimally. I also have a security concern about the files I am receiving from NetSession.

It seems like it would not be difficult to download a file using NetSession, modify it to carry a virus payload, and then leave that computer idle, and wait for NetSession to transmit the infected file to other NetSession users. I would hope that Akamai has taken steps to address this concern, but I can't find any information on that. In reply to OnTech's post on February 18, I don't have netsession installed, yet I still get sockets opening to their site.

The process was explorer. Sounds like netsession is malware. You're extrapolating from a single sentence in a much larger document, ever heard of 'context'? A proper answer requires a much better explanation than you've given here - you are guessing about the way it captures information and positing it as fact.

Akamai's primary role is to take the burden off a company's web site by mirroring their content and serving it from Akamai servers. It's simply a way for web-busy companies to be able to offload their worries about hardware and distribution - Akamai carries the burden of the server hardware and management, and it makes sense.

Companies can focus on what they do best and not have to worry about their internet servers; Akamai can focus on what they do best, that is, serving data to the internet. One benefit from this is that you are probably getting data from a close-by Akamai server instead of maybe the other side of the world.

The reason for file sharing going on between clients is that those common files which are downloaded anyway, even if Akamai wasn't in the background are always common to a particular web presence - such as fixed banners and company logos. So that in turn reduces the burden on Akamai's servers - where I come from, that's called efficiency.

Uninstalling or disabling Akamai could possibly break some applications see the customer list below , and will almost certainly slow your web browsing down. Remember that Akamai is installed by the program that wants it, not by Akamai themselves, and if a company starts using it then it might suddenly come up as a warning via windows security. The list of customers below gives some idea of the magnitude of its use. Even NASA uses it. This will show you which programs are using it and how much data is actually being used, and from here you have some control over what it is doing.

People whining about paying for additional bandwidth, pffffft. The only question for the average user here is what to allow, and no matter how hard I look I can't find a reliable source that actually sensibly answers the question with good logical reasoning.

Personally I don't feel threatened at all by Akamai, I understand what it is doing and why, and their customer list speaks volumes about their responsibilities, so I have allowed both public and private access. Sounds like OnTech is just being cautious. Sounds like you are employed by Akamai. The Akamai Netsession Interface is safe and protects the privacy of the user. Also, the interface provides safety against Internet threats as well. This information is used to rectify the network and troubleshoot any grievance.

Akamai International B. Akamai is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States with operations around the world. But instead of working with them, or building their own streaming media CDN, they chose to work with Akamai. Most of the Steam client e.

So technically, most of the standalone client is just a built up web browser. The next step in the process would be to ask all users to change their passwords, the next time they log in.