Here is a packet capture from my iPhone. It does this quite frequently. Who is AV?
GET /connectivity.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: static.ess.apple.com:80
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:01:53 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 13
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 04:54:11 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
AV was here!
iPhone 5, iOS 7
um thats not alot of info. howd you capture that. also apple puts easter eggs in someplaces. is your iphone jailbroken.
No I'm just running a tcpdump on my home router. Just trying to see why this iOS 7 iPhone is taking so much more data than when it was on iOS 6.1.4. At this rate, the base plan on AT&T won't cut it and I barely even use the data.
It also keeps repeatedly going to bugsense.com over and over. I highly doubt the old version did this.
Is there any reason why these are all happening now? It seems like I am being tracked more than ever at my expense (my data plan).
Has there been any resolution to this? I received the same message about "av was here" after facetiming and my iphone has been acting strange since.
Would love any help people can provide.
I have had this exact same issue? "AV was here!" On iPhone 4.
Any resolution to this?
Hi,
I just got the same "AV was here" message today. If explanation is known, can someone please post it here? Many thanks!
Same problem here. I suddenly receive the "AV was here!" messsge in Safari from this address:
http://static.ess.apple.com/connectivity.txt
I was just trying to access a website and that message arose. Using an iPhonen6 and iOS 8.1
Yup... when I check the top talkers report for HTTP traffic from my home network, it seems one iPhone 6 is responsible for 574 GET requests to this url in the last hour.
What is this, Apple?
The request is used to determine if you're on the real internet or a captive portal (like the guest network where you have to sign in first). Essentially it tries to load this web page in the background, if it doesn't get the response it expects it displays the results in that little "Sign into the internet pop-up".
That said, I would have hoped apple would put more responsible content in there than "AV was here!".
Has my iPhone been hacked? iOS 7
