mezigues Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 I keep getting messages from my firewall's components watcher saying that µtorrent has modified another process...here's a screen: (sry it's in French but it's easily understandable)My comp has just been formatted and there's no virus or ad/spyware of any kind (checked)Anyone knows what the hell is going on?EDIT: my firewall is Outpost Pro, am on win XP SP2 using an ethernet modem/router with ports correctly configured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Where did you get your µTorrent download? Here on utorrent.com or somewhere else? :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleh Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 Whoa, this is creepy alright...... as 1c3d0g said, where did you get your µtorrent program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davesnothere Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 This is just a wild guess, but if I understand correctly, it says that uT has modified a process, Not the actual .DLL file which is involved in the process.So perhaps we have just stumbled on the reason that uT is so small itself.From a programming perspective, it prob'ly uses a lot of the standard programming calls in the existing Windows components, rather than re-inventing the wheel.The firewall is simply flagging the times when that happens, yes ?Any comments ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaser Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 mezigues, you're not reading right...µTorrent is not modifying other processes... it's just trying to use some system libraries, like many other applications. you should allow that and you'll not receive other warnings.check Outpost's help and documentation and if you don't understand its use, you can disable "Component Control"...Not only does Outpost Client Firewall monitor applications, but it also monitors the components of each application. So, when a module of an application has changed and the application is about to establish a connection, Outpost Client Firewall will ask you whether it should be allowed. The purpose of this Component Control is to make sure components are not fake or malicious.There are a number of components in each system that are always used by more than one application. Two examples are: Windows system libraries and common language runtime. Such components are typically trusted because it is known that they don't impose a threat; moreover, they are often used by many applications, and monitoring all these common components takes up a lot of system resources and reduces performance.To optimize component control performance, Outpost Client Firewall supports the Shared Components list to which you can add trusted components intended for use by more than one application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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