I would imagine this is google analytics &^%$###$&, but I don’t don’t know for sure. Excellent search engine, but it seems they’ve moved more and more into ‘net monitoring’ of their users (ie spyware). I’ve been noticing this connection for a couple of days and have been watching it after creating the network control rule to block it. It just now started reappearing, and I haven’t changed my FW settings.
sorry the images on the forum came out so bad. here is link to a screen shot of the comodo connection screen showing connection to 216.239.53.91 http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/6995/googleanalyticsly3.jpg and here is a link with the network control blocking the outbound connection to “google spy or whatever it is” http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2440/networkcontrolrule2bu2.jpg and here is the link to the inbound rule blocking the same ip range http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1759/googlenetworkcontrolrulsf0.jpg
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/6995/googleanalyticsly3.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1759/googlenetworkcontrolrulsf0.jpg
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2440/networkcontrolrule2bu2.jpg
Search results for: 216.239.53.91
OrgName: Google Inc.
OrgID: GOGL
Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
City: Mountain View
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94043
Country: US
NetRange: 216.239.32.0 - 216.239.63.255
CIDR: 216.239.32.0/19
NetName: GOOGLE
NetHandle: NET-216-239-32-0-1
Parent: NET-216-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS4.GOOGLE.COM