Hello community.I have recently installed a dem of a program called Zonealarm,and it sees who what when where why how of internet activity on the pc.Well for some odd reason it sees Poser and Vue both as attempting to access the internet upon start up.Interesting i thought because i dont see why they would need the internet at all.Is this some form of violation? maybe it is a program flaw? Has anyone else experianced this sort of thing?

it could just be a Content Room check. ZoneAlarm will go to DefCon1 if you sneeze. Its paranoid. Cant say i like the program, but thats just me.

Poser will do a check on your LAN (if you have one) to ensure that no other copies of the program are running with the same serial number. It will only access the Internet if you use the Content Room. ZoneAlarm can not differentiate between these two operations and hence gives you the message you see.

oh yeah, forgot about that part...Thanks PhilC

I have Zone Alarm set to allow Poser through automatically. If you don't let it do its serial number check, it will keep trying - again and again and again, eating up system resources. Let it through, and it will check once, and not try to check again until you re-start Poser. (P4 does the same thing, BTW, even though it has no Content Paradise.)

Oh, and Vue contacts the net to check for updates. If you don't want it to do this, you can turn off the automatic updating.

OK,thanks guys for the help.I agree with you furyofaseraph,this thing has been going ballistic on me since the install.This and that and blah blah blah.Its seems ok otherwise,thank you all for the wonderful insight.BIG help for sure!

And remember, there is a way to remove Content Parasite (did it myself recently -- pretty trivial operation, actually. Patient survived, too!)

Really nomuse,and how is that? Not that i use it anyway,but i like "tweaking" things:D

Once you get the permissions set for each app that may try to contact the net, (and you will be further surprised at which ones do, i.e. wordpad?) ZoneAlarm will stop bugging you unless something is truly amiss. You can also turn off the normal alert pop-up windows and just log them instead. (usually no need to be interupted everytime your IP address gets pinged).

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