Why is automountd trying to connect to spammy sites?

[glitch44]

Little Snitch just caught automountd trying to connect to two spammy sites.

From research, I found out automountd is "a system service which mounts and unmounts network file systems" but I wasn't manually opening any files / mounting any filesystems at the time.

Here are screenshots of the Little Snitch warnings:

This is not Time Machine trying to connect to Backups.backupdb through automountd problem that comes up in google searches.

I had Google Chrome open and I was trying a trial out of Virusbarrier V6. Perhaps Virusbarrier was scanning files on my drive, called automountd to open a file of some sort, which tried to connect to spam sites? That's the only thing I can think of.

How to do find out why this happened?

 

[angelwatt]

This page seems to indicate it could be a DNS issue, with a potential solution being to use OpenDNS. You could also try using Google's DNS servers to see if it stops this from happening.

 

[glitch44]

This page seems to indicate it could be a DNS issue, with a potential solution being to use OpenDNS. You could also try using Google's DNS servers to see if it stops this from happening.

Cool, thank you for replying, although I included that link in my post too. In that case they know it's time machine accidentally trying to connect but I'm not sure which app is trying to use automountd.

 

[glitch44]

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