Strange NewsLeecher Activity?

[TwoSugars]

Hi ppl,
I've noticed that everytime I load up NewsLeecher, I get a ZoneAlarm alert telling me that the newsleecher.exe is trying to conenct to the net. Fair enough I thought. BUT...I noticed that the IP it connects to keeps changing. I done a whois for the IP on Samspade.org and they belong to random places. I have taken a screenshot to show what I mean.



The IP shown in that pic is some kind of PostalService! I'm wondering if this is normal?

Cheers,
TS

 

[Griff]

In all honesty Zone Alarm is crap. Find a new Firewall.

 

[TwoSugars]

I suspect it doesnt matter which firewall I use, they would all show the same IPs as they are nothing to do with ZA. Do you guys catch it tryign to connect to random IPs? I notice its a DNS thing, maybe its searching for a domain name to connect to?

 

[Griff]

Newsleecher is going to connect to which ever Usenet server provider you use. Newshosting for example have thousands of servers so it's only natural the IP would change.

PS - Zone Alarm is still crap.

 

[TwoSugars]

OK, I thought that may be the case. I'm not being c0cky or anything, but why do you think ZA is crap? I'm only asking so I know what the crack is.

 

[Griff]

It's just not regarded as a very good firewall and has "issues" with quite a few programs/services. If it's performing ok for you then you might aswell stick with it.

 

[TwoSugars]

OK thanks. I seems to work pretty well with my setup. Cheers anyhow

 

[jonnyboy]

If you do uninstall zonealarm do a google search on how to do it properly as doing it through control panel leaves the stupid svchost.exe running that munches up processor power (made mine stick at 100% sometimes) I just use my routers firewall and nothing else, have spambayes on the email and just run the virus check on download.com once a while never had any problems in over a year, before that had zonealarm and it was always c**king up

 

[TwoSugars]

Damn, I always thought ZA was a good firewall. I've used it for years without any problems at all.

 

[Martin_172]

I just use my routers firewall and nothing else

one thing to remember though is that a routers firewall only stops Incoming traffic, it doesnt stop outgoing traffic, so if you have a trojan or anything that wants to access the net from your machine it can, and that will let it open the port on the router to allow traffic in

 

[Munson]

Sygate is where it's at IMHO