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Hi Andy,
I have noticed similiar behaviour w.r.t. ZoneAlarm and my Omega
Research products. My current data vendor is PCQuote.com, and these
are the Omega Research applications that I have had to allow ZoneAlarm
to pass through the firewall:
ORBrowser Application 5.00.0771
pcqetix MFC Application
Omega Research GlobalServer 5.00.2919.6700
I have also noticed that whenever I do a download from
HistoryBank.com, I see the BMI subserver process initialize in the
Event Logs.
I have wondered myself about these messages and connections. However,
it might be a little premature to conclude that there is something
dastardly going on w.r.t. these connections. They may be perfectly
legitamate and necessary for the software to work properly.
Regards, Matt
Andy> I have to say that I'm quite surprised that TS 2000i SP4
Andy> actually works. :-)
Andy>
Andy> It's been on for a week, on Windows NT 4.0, in real time and has
Andy> yet to collapse (knock on wood). :-)
Andy>
Andy> I do have some questions on it though:
Andy>
Andy> 2) I don't know if anyone has notice this but if you run this
Andy> for the first time in conjunction with Zone Alarm, ZA will
Andy> notify you that both BMI and Omega tries to send out a
Andy> message via the internet, even if you're using a non internet
Andy> datafeed - i.e., it has no reason to access the internet at
Andy> all. So, what is going on here? Is it trying to register this
Andy> software package to their respective vendors? I'm not really
Andy> worried about it, since I bought it directly from Omega but
Andy> why is it trying to send out a message via the internet to
Andy> their respective home sites? If it's trying to register it,
Andy> shouldn't it notify me first, rather then trying
Andy> surriptiously and then having a firewall telling that? Has
Andy> anyone encounter this?
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