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Thread: wcg_hcc1_img_6.06 etc trying to phone home? |
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Former Member
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One of my many firewalls gagged, throwing up a message that wcg_hcc1_img_6.06_windows_intelx86 was trying to communicate with an IP address that the Internic defines as unregistered. I'm guessing this was an unsolicited update attempt on the software's part. My questions would be:
1) why is my charitable application trying to punch out through my security, 2) why is the target of that charitable app an IP that's unregistered, 3) why is the image number inconsistent with the "new version of BOINC (5.10.45) that is announced as being available? Insights welcome. |
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Hello NoEcho,
Interesting. My copy is dated 11 June 2008 with size 1,604 KB. It has never tried to access any unregistered IP addresses or my firewall would complain. I am uncertain just what is happening but I would reboot and check that file for viruses. Another possibility is that something else on your computer is trying to masquerade as your screen saver file. Lawrence |
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Okay, a few problems here:
First, the science application shouldn't be doing network communication at all. There is absolutely no need for the software to automatically update itself, since new versions of science applications are managed by BOINC. BOINC itself has no automatic update ability. Second, BOINC version numbers are completely independent of the science application versioning (so nothing to worry about, there). Please will you tell us what IP address was involved? Thank you. As Lawrence says, a virus infection is a possibility - but we want to cover all the possibilities. |
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Now zonealarm is firing up for every unit that loads into Boinc. Acts like they're independent applications...
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Sekerob
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This weird IP address contacting registered to no one has been reported at some other projects too, think here as well. If I find it again I post it. It's innocent.
----------------------------------------ZA rings bells at everything including localhost/loopback traffic. I've disabled that in my firewall: 1 the blinking over localhost traffic (only certain ZA version can). 2 the localhost monitoring over the IP and ports used by BOINC.
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NoEcho, the science application is a separate application. BOINC launches the relevant science application for each work unit.
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Zonealarm was treating each work unit as a separate application. I think this has something to do with recent windows xp updates interfering with Zonealarm. I installed the new zonealarm update last night and haven't seen any noise since then - and have been able to re-raise my Zonealarm security to high without interfering with the app or internet connectivity (which wasn't possible right after the windows update). However, Boinc is now running at 50% cpu utilization so I guess I have to update my Boinc client too..
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Hello NoEcho,
Check your decice profiles to make sure you are running at 100% on all cores. Lawrence |
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Hello NoEcho, Check your decice profiles to make sure you are running at 100% on all cores. Lawrence Yep, did that. Under the older version of the application it ran 100 percent on both cores, now it runs 99 percent split between two cores. |
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Sekerob
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Your TaskManager shows 50% of the total system capacity under windows, but it's 100% of one core and if the graph is flat and not 100% / 0% fluctuation in the performance tab of the TM, it's not BOINC throttling the crunching.
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