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picollo

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Message 6106 - Posted: 20 Oct 2006, 20:38:33 UTC
Last modified: 20 Oct 2006, 20:39:31 UTC

I checked the communications of boinc.exe.
I noticed that boinc communicates with the addresses of the various servers of the projects to which I am attached, which is normal.
But I noticed also that it communicates with addresses of google.

Is this normal?
Do you know why ?

I am sorry if there is some errors but English is not my natural language
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Les Bayliss
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Message 6108 - Posted: 20 Oct 2006, 22:12:33 UTC
Last modified: 20 Oct 2006, 22:15:04 UTC

If BOINC is having problems connecting to a project, it then tries to connect to a site that should always be available; i.e. Google.
If it gets to it, then the most likely cause of not getting to the project, is that the project is down.
If it can't get to the reference site, then the most likely cause is that the user's computer can't connect to the internet via the ports that BOINC needs.
Which is in addition to port 80, which is also used by browsers, and should always work.

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picollo

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Message 6136 - Posted: 23 Oct 2006, 10:40:41 UTC

Thanks a lot

I thought that I had something like a spyware/virus



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