Re: Why is Win Explorer accessing the Net?
chris_at_nospam.com
Date: 12/26/03
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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:55:35 GMT
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 12:17:44 GMT, Lars M. Hansen
<badnews@hansenonline.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 10:13:55 +0200, Lassi Hippeläinen spoketh
>
>>chris@nospam.com wrote:
>>
>>> Isn't it a bit odd that Explorer is the process reported doing the
>>> discovery? Doesn't this discovery occur when tcpip or the ppp comes
>>> up which may happen before explorer is running?
>>
>>It is Microsoft policy that Explorer cannot be separated from the
>>operating system. They claimed that in court, so they must live by it...
>>
>
>You are confusing "Explorer" with "Internet Explorer". Explorer _is_ the
>OS, thus it is making the router discovery requests.
Explorer is not the OS. It is just a shell/user interface. For
example, you can run cmd.exe as your shell just fine. You can even
kill explorer using task manager and all the other programs continue
just fine.
Explorer talks to the network by making calls to the underlying
network subsystem, but it should not be doing the actual router
discovery. My guess is that the software firewall is trying to
identify what program was talking to the network when the router
discovery occured.
-Chris
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