Simpol accessing internet

[JD Kromkowski]

I’ve had some potential problems with security. Norton has advised me of the following: An instance of “C:…..smpwin32.exe” is preparing to access the Internet. and An instance of “C:…..sbngide.exe” is preparing to access the Internet. What are the circumstances in which this would occur? And why?

[Michael]

On 07/03/2012 18:49, JDK wrote:
> I've had some potential problems with security.
>
> Norton has advised me of the following:
>
> An instance of "C:…..smpwin32.exe" is preparing to access the
> Internet.
>
> and
>
> An instance of "C:…..sbngide.exe" is preparing to access the
> Internet.
>
> What are the circumstances in which this would occur? And why?
>

You are probably running a firewall. Firewall security will not permit
an application to access the Internet unless you have white-listed it or
your firewall software has it on an internal white list. It is pretty
standard for the software to ask the first time, and there will usually
be a check box that you can select to have it remember your answer about
allowing access, which will add the exe to the white list.

If you are playing around with the httpclientlib to access web pages, or
otherwise working with tcpsocket objects, then this will pop up.

Ciao, Neil

[JD Kromkowski]

What I am seeing is that every time I open a form with ppcs datasource
whether in Personal or in IDE I get this message. (Of course, I am also
getting error 10 message because I haven't run the simpolserver thing.) I
am recalling that I had asked about this a long time ago. Does that sound
right? I think I've duplicated it.

[Michael]

On 21/03/2012 20:19, JDK wrote:
> What I am seeing is that every time I open a form with ppcs datasource whether in Personal or in IDE I get this message. (Of
> course, I am also getting error 10 message because I haven't run the simpolserver thing.) I am recalling that I had asked
> about this a long time ago. Does that sound right? I think I've duplicated it.
>

You will. Unless you tell your system to allow it to access the Internet, you will get this popup every time. If you don't allow
access (or it takes too long), then trying to access a ppcs data source will deliver an error 10 (timeout). The same error will
occur if you don't run the database server, since there will be nothing to which it can connect.

Ciao, Neil

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