Weird WinMX AdAware Weirdness

[suzy software]

Please see the screenshot I took from my ZoneLog:

http://members.tripod.com/~suzysoftware/AdAwareWeird.jpg

Last night I was running WinMX v3.1 and happened to click on the Zone Alarm (v 2.6.88) tray icon and saw that the AdAware Reference Updater v2.0 was running (I'd given it permission 3 weeks ago when I installed the latest version)

So, why was the AdAware Reference Updater Running by itself? Not checking for updates, right?

Also, when I clicked on it to remove it from Zone Alarm it immediately popped up and asked for permission again to access the internet (as a "changed program")

I denied it permission and the AdAware Reference Updater completely. I clicked back onto the downloads I was doing on WinMX and all of them had stopped with the mesage "network down"

When I killed the AdAware Reference Updater access, it also killed my WinMX downloads.

Why?

As you can see in the screenshot it says:

Ad-aware webupdate running on port 6699 (File sharing port for Napster/WinMX, etc) and going to an IP address:
c-66-177-197-239-se.clien2.attbi.com

How did the AdAware reference Updater attach itself to port 6699 aactions?

suzysoftware

suzysoftware@hotmail.com

[Suzy Software]

I wrote:

I denied it permission and the AdAware Reference Updater completely. I clicked back onto the downloads I was doing on WinMX and all of them had stopped with the mesage "network down

I should have said:

I denied it permission and removed the AdAware Reference Updater completely. I clicked back onto the downloads I was doing on WinMX and all of them had stopped with the mesage "network down

suzysoftware@hotmail.com

[suzy software]

Does anyone have any comments,suggestions or feedback?

I just found it strange that WinMX or AdAware managed to attach themselves to each other under Zone Alarm.

Thank you

[Paul Wilders]

Suzy,

Since this one seems Adaware related in the first place, drop by on their official forum, and ask the designer:

www.lavasoft.nu/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi (http://www.lavasoft.nu/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi)

regards.

paul

[javacool]

It seems very strange to me that either program could be connected.

Maybe you just encountered some sort of bug?

In any case, I would also suggest dropping by the LavaSoft forums - if anything is known about this, they'd be the place to go.

-javacool

[Checkout]

Strange, this - I never had a problem with Adaware. Does this still happen when you run it on demand, rather than startup?