Re: Spooler subsystem app accessing DNS
From: Steven L Umbach (sumbach_at_ameritech.net)
Date: 05/09/03
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Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 20:38:21 GMT
It may access the ISP dns server to find the website it wants, since
ip addresses may change over time. The only thing I can suggest to track
down what is happening is to try a trace as I suggested in original
st. --- Steve
"Boogie Woogie Flu" <spam@email.sux> wrote in message
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> > I have noticed some applications try to access websites for
> drivers,
> > application updates, registration, etc. Probably nothing malicious. If
you
> > are curious, let it proceed sometime to see what happens - maybe to the
> > point where you can identify the website it wants to access by using
> > nslookup against the ip address it wants to access. I usually just block
> > this stuff without getting any annoying notification. --- Steve
> >
>
> This was my original thought. I could see this for Photoshop maybe, but
> Microsoft Photo Editor? This program is years old and updates are only
> available through MS Office Service Releases. There is no registration,
> automatic update or update notification function in this application, I'm
> pretty sure of that. And if this were the case, would it not access the
> software maker's website and not my ISP's DNS? Most importantly, it's not
> the app itself trying to access the internet, it's the Spooler Subsystem
> App. It seems to happen only when I launch these programs.
>
>
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