Shortly after launching Skype I always get Comodo popping up to say that there’s a request from an external IP to connect (and it lists Skype as the program responsible).
If I block the IP, the popup appears again with a different IP.
But all the IPs look suspicious to me. Some of the IPs that have popped up.
218.232.214.92 is a Korean IP
46.161.179.123 seems to be from Russia
103.239.234.68 is listed in the Anti-Hacker Alliance as a hacker IP
Any suggestions/comments?
PS: The exact message that appears in the Comodo Firewall pop-up is “Skype.exe is trying to receive a connection from the Internet”.
There is no result in Google for that text string (in quotes) which is what worries me.
How else to you expect a P2P VoIP program to work without a connection to the internet?
The only concerning part is Skype using your bandwidth to act as a mirror for other’s conversions, hence the foreign ips. You use to be able to disable that, now not so much, which is why I stopped using it.
How else to you expect a P2P VoIP program to work without a connection to the internet?
That is unnecessarily patronising.
The concern is not that Skype is connecting to the internet, but that a number of foreign IPs - IPs that I have no connection with, many in countries that have a reputation as bases for online criminals - keep popping up and connecting to Skype.
The further concern was the complete lack of anyone posting this same complaint anywhere (well, anywhere that Google crawls and displays).
My initial hope was that others who’ve had this same concern would have posted somewhere which posts would have had some sensible and helpful replies. Or even the explanation that these foreign IP connections are part of Skype’s operation as Skpye is “using your bandwidth to act as a mirror for other’s conversions”.