Re: Non-internet application wants to connect over internet

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From: Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \) ("Ignacio)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:01:46 -0400

Hi,

 Where its trying to connect?

If it's an IP do a tracert and see if you determine where it goes.

cheers, 

-- 
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation
"Tom Dacon" <tdacon@community.nospam> wrote in message
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> I have a little desktop application (it happens to be a Windows Forms
analog
> clock) that's written in VB.Net (2003). I placed a shortcut in my Startup
> program group to start it up when I log on. I have put no code in the
> application whatsoever to do internet communications, and yet when it
starts
> up at logon I've begun getting notification dialogs from my software
> firewall that the app wants to connect to the internet. It doesn't happen
> when the app has been freshly rebuilt, but after a few days or so it
starts
> to try to connect and thereafter tries again each time the app is started
> up.
>
> Thinking that I might have acquired some new kind of virus that attaches
> itself to .Net executables, I made a note of the file size and the 'last
> modified' date after a fresh build, and then checked it again after the
> executable started wanting to connect to the internet. No changes. Norton
> AntiVirus 2003 with the most recent updates shows a clean scan. I always
> tell the firewall (Norton Personal Firewall 2003) to block the
> communication, and the application continues to execute normally.
>
> Has anyone else seen similar behavior in non-communications-enabled
> applications, or know of anything that might shed some light on this
> behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Dacon
> Dacon Software Consulting
>
>
>

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