BOINC vs ZoneAlarm
26 Sep 2005 2:59:32 UTC
Topic 189927
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I've recently installed the ZoneAlarm free firewall on my computer and after awhile, it popped up an alert that WINLOGON.EXE was trying to access the Internet at IP address 129.89.61.70:53 (einstein.phys.uwm.edu : DNS). Any idea why it would be trying to logon to that computer and should I allow it?
BOINC vs ZoneAlarm
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I am not very knowledgeable about such matters but, since you haven't gotten any other replies, I'll give you "my two cents worth". I would NOT assume anything sinister is going on here. It could very well be that BOINC/Einstein uses WINLOGON to handle its account access transactions with the Einstein server as a prelude to reporting back results, getting new WU's etc. You might try looking in your BOINC Messages folder to see if there are any error messages that correlate with your ZoneAlarm alerts. If so, I would be inclined to allow the connection.
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Thanks for the reply. There have been no error messages in my BOINC messages folder and the alert only occurred once (I told ZA to block it once). Downloading and reporting in BOINC seem to be working OK. I guess if I ever get another alert I'll decide what I want to do at that point.