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Date: 10/29/04
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:42:34 -0700
It's a real problem when a legitimate MS file shows up in Zone
Alarm with NO NAME and asks for internet connection rights.
I don't need to search for help from that location, so it's
harmless. But it caused me to spend a lot of time trying to run down
a problem that didn't even exist.
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In the last exciting episode on Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:34:22 -0500,
"Vanguardx" <see_signature> wrote:
|"<*((((><{" <*((((>
|wrote in news:e6r3o0psbh5o3lkcnuivrvh5tlavh10uds@4ax.com:
|> When I try to Search from Start > Help & Support, Zone Alarm asks if I
|> want to let Microsoft Help Center Hosting Server v5.1.2600.0 to access
|> the internet. When I say NO, I can still search and see help.
|>
|> Note -- the above Zone Alarm entry is different, in that it gives me
|> the name of an application. It also tells me the name of the file:
|> "HelpHost.exe"
|>
|> The one I disallowed had no application name in the "about" dialog of
|> zone Alarm.
|>
|> <*((((><{
|> Fishy@Ocean.Net
|>
|>
|> In the last exciting episode on Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:49:31 -0500,
|> "Vanguardx" <see_signature> wrote:
|>
|>> "<*((((><{" <*((((>
|>> wrote in news:rsl0o0hmerv015o704f4l6vc9v9u8otne2@4ax.com:
|>>> I have XP Home. I have Zone Alarm firewall. ZoneAlarm detects an
|>>> application named " " (that's right -- no name), which wants to
|>>> access the internet and act as server.
|>>>
|>>> I've let it do this for years. ZoneAlarm says it is Microsoft Help
|>>> Center Hosting Server, v5.1.2600.0.
|>>>
|>>> As part of trying to clean up my system, I discover that I can
|>>> disallow that application and remove it from my Zone Alarm list.
|>>> And can still surf!
|>>>
|>>> At times in the past, if ZoneAlarm detected the application, I got
|>>> "unfound page/unable to connect to server" messages until I allowed
|>>> it.
|>>>
|>>> Have I been bamboozled?
|>>>
|>>> Is there a Microsoft Help Center Hosting Server v5.1.2600.0 that
|>>> comes with XP Home or any MS Office application?
|>>>
|>>> Does anybody know what this might be? What I should do?
|>>>
|>>> Feeling foolish, deep in the cold blue sea --
|>>> <*((((><{
|>>> Fishy@Ocean.Net
|>>
|>> When you have it blocked (i.e., disallowed), what happens when you
|>> perform a search in Start -> Help and Support?
|
|I bet all your search turns up is what is in the local help file(s).
|Notice in the leftside results pane that there is a section for local
|matches (Suggested and Full-text) and also matches from the Microsoft
|Knowledgebase. Search on "encryption". I got 15 results under the MS
|Knowledgebase section. Did you get any? I suspect you blocking Help
|and Support from having Internet access will result in not finding all
|possible matches on a search that might be possible. However, if you
|prefer to use a web browser (already authorized through your firewall)
|to go to http://support.microsoft.com/ and enter your search criteria a
|second time then you don't need Help and Support connecting to the
|Internet.
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