On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:11:08 -0500 "Robert Greenage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape and Internet Explorer. I also tried Windows > Media Player as an experiment and it happened with that program also. I > never allow MP to connect to the internet...I only use it when I am not > online. I use Zone alarm as a software firewall and I allow it to "show" > blocked sites every so often as a " check" to see what is trying to access > my pc. This time I kept getting the destination ip 127.0.0.1: port XXXX > application: firefox.exe for example. I'm thinking of two scenarios here, a) port XXXX is always 53... Somehow your network settings are configured to try localhost as the primary nameserver, triggering the ZoneAlarm alerts and failing the connection since no nameserver is running. Annoying but harmless, all you'd need to do is fix the DNS setting in network properties. b) port XXXX is something else... There are several malware programs which essentially hijack the Windows TCP stack in order to send all your requests through an advertising server. AdAware or Spybot S&D would find any programs that might be trying to do something sneaky in this manner. Are you able to actually use any of your internet applications, or do they fail to connect at all after the ZoneAlarm warning? -s _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
