Abiword doing some strange stuff - problem?

Online Armor Free is reporting that my copy of Abiword is doing some rather odd things...

- Every time it starts, it attempts to do a raw write to part of the hard drive. Obviously I told OA to block this, there is no reason I can think of for a word processor to do such a thing.

- When I try to save a file in it, it tries to control svchost.exe using OLE. OA's popup says it could be able to access the internet indirectly using such methods. Not sure if a word processor controlling svchost is normal or not, I'm not really that familiar with Windows' architecture.

I'm beginning to wonder if the copy of Abiword I installed was infected, or if this app is just horribly coded. It shouldn't be infected, I got it from Filehippo which AFAIK is trustworthy...

 

Whether it's listed as trusted or not doesn't concern me. What concerns me is that a word processor probably should not be doing low-level disk writes!

 

Which AbiWord is it? I have 2.8.1, it differs from some earlier versions in having an online 'collaborate' function on it. This may be a factor.

 

But I am not going to trust it if it is doing stuff like low-level disk writes, I first need to know that it's unadulterated.

Latest, 2.8.4. Still seems strange to me that such a function would do a low-level write every time the program started, though...

 

It seems odd. It could just be a bug though. The earlier version of AbiWord I had worked fine, I'm not really sure why I updated. I have noticed with mine that if I make a screenprint it seems to save it perfectly OK until you open the file after saving. Then it is compressed together as if being re-sized by the re-sizing handles. To get around this you can re-size it before saving, even if you aren't making any real difference. It just seems the act of re-sizing makes it save properly. I assumed it was just a bug. Maybe it's something like that? Just some odd bug?