That Windows Firewall setting provided some useful information this
morning. It showed that my antivirus was updating in background, even though I
had set it to manual only. Turned out that there is an additional setting that
enables srreaming updating. I turned that off and have yet to see any
unexpected activity.
>
> I looked into the Windows Firewall and found that the security logging
>was turned off, so I enabled it and then waited for some internet activity.
>Seems that the laptop is connecting to and disconnecting from a "reverse
>DNS" site called "popsite.net" (205.232.250.175), a reverse DNS for dial-up
>equipment, which is looking at my webmail connection (207.69.189.109),
>which seems pretty harmless. I'll have to use this tomorrow around noon
>when I see the background activity taking place.
>
>>
>>I use Macs, so I have never tried Comodo. There is a similar piece of
>>software for Mac called Little Snitch that I have used for years. Anytime
>>anything tries to connect to the internet, it pops up a message informing
>>me, and asking if I want to allow or block the connection. Allowing and
>>blocking can be set to Œforever¹ or to Œjust once.¹ It works very well.
>>
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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