Re: when is svchost safe?
From: Frank Sandy (fsandy@rcn.com)
Date: 12/18/02
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From: Frank Sandy <fsandy@rcn.com> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:38:43 -0500 To: Francoise <franou-abcdefg@pe.hijkl.net>
I have found that svchost.exe only tries to access the network
when my computer first boots. I think that it is acting on behalf of
the XP service that is trying to get my IP address from a DHCP server.
Since I have a home local network, and my router is the DHCP server
for it, I have told Zone Alarm to allow svchost.exe to access the
local network but not the internet. With that restriction everything
works fine (so far).
Francoise wrote:
> Win XP home and free ZoneAlarm.
>
> Can I safely allow all the Generic Host Processes for Win32 /
> svchost.ese to go through ZA?
>
> For example Source IP: 64.38.64.3:DNS
> Version 5.1.2600.0 (xpclient 010817-1148
>
> This COULD be Win automatic update.
>
> Thanks
> Françoise Frigola
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