To Block or Not to Block - That is the Question !

[Snake Nukem]

My firewall found outgoing request from SUCATREG.EXE
listed as Windows Catalog Registration
running ver Win ME
What happens if I block this ?

Thanks
Snake

[siljaline]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:30:58 -0400, Snake Nukem <SnakeNukemNoSpam@hotmail.com> wrote:

>My firewall found outgoing request from SUCATREG.EXE
>listed as Windows Catalog Registration
>running ver Win ME
>What happens if I block this ?
>
>Thanks
>Snake

The executable won't "phone home" when updating devices via Device Manager.

HTH


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siljaline

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because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:30:58 -0400, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, Snake Nukem
<SnakeNukemNoSpam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> My firewall found outgoing request from SUCATREG.EXE
[snip]

<http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32mag.html>

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Jay T. Blocksom
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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