Using Win xp home…when I connect to the internet using Firefox I open Comodo and click the activity icon and then the connections option and bam! I have about 25 FF icons with different destination IPs. Is this normal or is my machine a spambot??? Also, I have had numerous instances where Comodo is asking if USERINIT.EXE can use IE to access the internet. I did run numerous online scans and all came back clean…in addition, I used my personal cleaners [Nod32, Webroot, AdAware, Spybot, A2, Blacklight] and all came back clean…also purged system restore. Any thoughts??
It is normal to see many FF connections depending on what you are doing on the net. I usually have at least 4 and sometimes 20 or more.
As for Userinit.exe I have never had this warning. Did you do a scan for known applications after you installed CFP? Have you ticked ‘Do Not Show Alerts For Applications Certified By Comodo’?
:SMLR
I have seen that since Tuesday’s MS Updates. Allow w/Remember and no further problems. It is a Windows file.
LM
Is that with one browser tab opened?
N.T.T.W.
Checked the box according to your suggestion…seems to be working.
Soya Lv. 2,
Yes, with one browser and one window open [Firefox]
Little Mac,
I just installed the updates from last week this evening…so in actuality it could not be from the MS updates…at least in theory.asdfj (:LGH)
Sometimes CFP delays in refreshing the Connection window, too. Right now I’m using Opera with 1 tab and there’s already 4 connections shown when I first open it, and now 2…
Is this with just FF and not other browsers on the same site(s) and is it on average 25 connections?
Gotta remember w/FF that all the extensions may add to the number of connects showing; a lot will be to localhost. But even IE will generate quite a few (never seen it do 25, though)…
LM
also remember that by default firefox has a bunch of feeds that it checks.
You can just delete those if you don’t use them ( You can find them in “bookmarks”);
the anti-fishing feature will also make a connection when you start FF…