Re: chatty wab
From: <----- Which Way -----> (traxless_at_msn.com)
Date: 10/24/05
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:23:55 GMT
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:29:28 GMT, hetzer <hetzer@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:
>I have recently replaced Zonealarm with a copy of Sygate Personal
>Firewall. Today it stopped wab.exe, the XP addressbook applet, from
>attempting an outgoing connection to aus.mozilla.org via Firefox (my
>default browser). I usually use the Thunderbird addressbook but had
>opened wab to check an old address.
>
>Is this normal behaviour for wab? Sygate labelled it as "application
>hijacking" and I wonder is some email virus or Trojan is at work. Avast
>antivirus reports nothing but a scan with antivir did find a "trace" of
>a virus in one of my Java files. I let antivir delete the file and all
>seems to be running fine.
I share your concern on this issue. While the file appears to be a
legitmate MS file, I'd be concerned why it's "calling home." I use
Sygate with XP and have never seen this issue. I did a quick search
and did not find anything to help. I'd suggest some additional
research.
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