Re: Microsoft Help Centre message

From: Peter James (nospam_at_petefjames.clara.co.uk)
Date: 12/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:25:27 +0000

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:08:22 -0000, "Hairy One Kenobi"
<abuse@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

>"Peter James" <nospam@petefjames.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:jdeluvclpv6jev8mkd8rg6ndn999eaip5s@4ax.com...
>> On occasions during using Help Centre on Windows XP, I get the
>> following message from Kerio, my firewall.
>> "Microsoft Help Centre Hosting Server" from your computer wants to
>> send UDP datagram to ad.free6.com [127.0.0.1] port 1123.
>> details about application
>> C:|windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\helphost.exe
>> ends
>> Now am I a bit paranoid about this? Why should Windows want to access
>> ad.free6.com? Up to now I am denying each and every request on an
>> individual basis. Should I allow Kerio to write a rule and deny
>> automatically? May thanks.
>
>Does the address happen to mean anything?
>
>Don't suppose that you're running.have installed something that attempts to
>redirect "nasties" to localhost? It'll probably have something like "spy"
>and/or "dns" in the program name.
>
>The first line for 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file should read "localhost".
I am getting rather concerned about this ad.free6.com. Just about
every programme I use to access the net causes this message to be
flagged up:
 "Microsoft Help Centre Hosting Server" from your computer wants to
 send UDP datagram to ad.free6.com [127.0.0.1] port 1123.
 details about application
 C:|windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\helphost.exe
 ends
And I have had to get kerio to blanket ban every mention of it. I
have used Ad-aware, Spybot and hijackthis but to no avail. How do I
get rid of it, and where is it hiding on my HD. A search using
Windows Explorer does not find any mention of it. 

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Peter James
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