Notepad.exe is trying to access the internet (huh???)

Whenever I try to save using Notepad, ZoneAlarm Pro spits out the message this message: notepad is trying to access the internet (dest ip: 203.133.11.113:ftp). This block of IP belongs to a cable company in Taiwan, & obviously why it needs to look at all the trivial crap that I type in the notepad is beyond me (yeah, I should just type some crazy **** & send it ). At any rate, I've ran spyware scanners along with many others including TDS-3, but came up clean -- which doesn't surprise me since notepad.exe is a legit prog. But here's the twist...there are 2 (read: two) notepads -- one in the Windows directory & another in the System32. Is this normal? I thought it should be in the Sys32 folder. Has anyone stumbled into the same problem?

 

Hi slurp...
Here is what I have on mine:

 

Hi slurp,

That destination is an FTP server that appears to host files for Ulead. The files are current. The directory listing in /pub/Trial/Index.txt shows:

"Trial versions of our products. You can download them and try it.

/Cool3DCool 3D
/GACGIF Animation Collection I
/GifAniGIF Animator
/MS2.5MediaStudio Pro 2.5 Trial
/MS5.0MediaStudio Pro 5.0 Trial
/PA Photo Assistant
/PEPhoto Explorer
/PI4trial Ulead Photo Impact Chinese version
/Particle Particle.Plugin for Photoshop
/SsaverSmartSaver
/Type Type.Plugin for Photoshop
/UPI4 Ulead Photo Impact
/ViewerPhotoImpact Viewer
Wusl.exe Web Utilities System Libraries (MFC40.DLL, MSVCRIT.DLL, MSVCRT.DLL, MSVCRT20.DLL, and MSVCRT40.DLL)
/albumWeb Album
/screenPhotoImpact Screen Capture
/wp4psWeb.Plugins for PhotoShop
/wr4psWebRazor for PhotoShop"

Do you run any Ulead software?

Nick

 

Whooeee! I have a similar problem with Microsoft Word (MS Office 2003) where every time I open the progran it tries to connect to the Internet looking for 64.94.110.11 - all other progs don't attempt to connect, but for some inexplicable reason MS Word does!

ZoneAlarm Pro stops it and notifies me & then the system hangs (or times out then carries on as per norm.

Pinging the address consistantly times out and zonealarm can't throw any light on this also.

Suggestions

Thanks
Dabbler

 

Microsoft often connects to the internet searching for updates/search/help/...

here is for 64.94.110.11 referring too:

bye

 

Sure... PLACE MOUSE OVER THIS NICE TEXT AND PRESS LEFT MOUSEBUTTON

 

LMAO sad but true: it's possible to stop ms from doing it till a certain degree but fully disabling, it won't work...and that's the case with practicaly all m$ apps...Open Office/Star Office is a real nice alternative for ms office imo less bloated anyway

 

I've never had notepad try to access the net. I do know alot of the trojans out there from the last couple years (well, beast anyway) had notepad.exe as one of the default processes to inject it's server into.

 

Hi mottramr,

I used to have the exact same problem with Word 2003. I figured that Word was trying to connect remotely to somewhere. I don't know how this started. So, I just added this registery key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OLE]
"EnableRemoteConnect"="N"

Now Word is behaving as it should. Let me know if this fixed your problem.