At random I get requests from my firewall, LNS 2.05 B2, for internet access for PG_msgprot.exe. Is there any reason for PG to need internet access? If not, what could be triggering this request? I haven't been able to narrow down any particular actions or conditions which would tell me what's going on since this has happened twice in the past two weeks. I'm using PG 1.30.
Hmm, one thing I can think of is possibly you have run some file over a network and PG tries to read that file to display its icon? PG has no winsocks/internet code in it besides opening up IE to go to a website when you click on one of the help links. Hope that helps. -Jason-
I'm not on a network... just a stand-alone computer. I don't consider this a major problem since I just block it and forget about it, but some people are so paranoid, that something such as this may start up that "phone home" silliness that you had to deal with last year with TDS-3 if anyone else reports a similar event.
It is strange because it has no network code in it at all. At least in Process Guard. Maybe some of the microsoft dll's it uses are doing something. -Jason-
Other than the default settings that PG uses at installation, I only have NOD32.exe, BOClean.exe, Looknstop.exe and nod32krn.exe protected. If this happens again I'll pay more attention to what I was doing at the time and send you the PG log file from that instant if you'd like it as well as the firewall log info from that instant as well.
Harold, yes it'd be good if you could determine exactly which port it was trying to connect to, and also what remote IP address -- I have a strong suspicion that the IP address will be local to your system Best regards, Wayne
