Program trying to access Internet?

Hello,

I just recently downloaded some old code I wrote with SDL to my new
computer and tried it out. It was nothing complex, just a simple GUI I made
a while back. Anyway, on my new computer I installed ZoneAlarm, the great
free firewall by Zone Labs, and ZoneAlarm popped up an alert saying that it
had blocked my program. The logs from ZoneAlarm didnt give any information
as to whether my program was trying to act as a server or client or
anything. I scanned the file with both McAfee and Norton and found no
viruses or trojan horses or anything.
I created the program by scratch, and I know it doesnt have any networking
code inside it. Im trying to get MinGW and SDL put back on my computer so I
can recompile the source code and see if ZoneAlarm still says it tries to
access the internet (anybody know of any free unzipper that handles tar.gz
for the SDL version for MinGW?). Anyway, Im just really baffled at why my
program that I coded myself from scratch is trying to access the internet
when I didnt code anything like that into the code and I cant find any virus
in the program that might be the cause. Anybody have any suggestions on how
to investigate this further?

  • Jeremiah

[…]

ZoneAlarm still says it tries to access the internet (anybody know
of any free unzipper that handles tar.gz for the SDL version for
MinGW?).

Try 7-zip. It’s free/open source, has a GUI and (unlike WinZip) it
even handles recent versions of bzip2.

Anyway, Im just really baffled at why my program that I
coded myself from scratch is trying to access the internet when I
didnt code anything like that into the code and I cant find any
virus in the program that might be the cause. Anybody have any
suggestions on how to investigate this further?

That is weird… Maybe you’ve found an unknown virus? :wink:

Is it possible for ZoneAlarm to make the offending call generate a
signal or something? If it is, you could run your program in a
debugger and look at the stack backtrace once ZoneAlarm shuts it
down.

Hey, wait… Is it possible to build SDL with X support under Win32?
(There are X servers for Win32, so it might be useful.) Did you
compile your own SDL lib?

//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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http://olofson.nethttp://www.reologica.se —On Thursday 08 January 2004 00.36, 3109 wrote:

Here’s an update. I just recompiled the code, and the same thing happens.
When it starts ZoneAlarm pops up saying it blocked my program. The logs
don’t give any indication as to what it thinks my program is doing though. I
have the complete source code and so I know theres no network code inside
the source. I seriously doubt SDL puts network code inside programs - and
Ive scanned the program with the newest virus definitions from McAfee and
it’s not infected. Has anybody else ever come across this problem? Anybody
know anyway that I can find out what inside the program is trying to access
the internet? Any help will be great! :slight_smile:

  • Jeremiah> ----- Original Message -----

From: david@olofson.net (David Olofson)
To: sdl at libsdl.org
Sent: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 18:32:21 +0100
Subject: Re: [SDL] Program trying to access Internet?

On Thursday 08 January 2004 00.36, 3109 wrote:
[…]

ZoneAlarm still says it tries to access the internet (anybody know
of any free unzipper that handles tar.gz for the SDL version for
MinGW?).

Try 7-zip. It’s free/open source, has a GUI and (unlike WinZip) it
even handles recent versions of bzip2.

Anyway, Im just really baffled at why my program that I
coded myself from scratch is trying to access the internet when I
didnt code anything like that into the code and I cant find any
virus in the program that might be the cause. Anybody have any
suggestions on how to investigate this further?

That is weird… Maybe you’ve found an unknown virus? :wink:

Is it possible for ZoneAlarm to make the offending call generate a
signal or something? If it is, you could run your program in a
debugger and look at the stack backtrace once ZoneAlarm shuts it
down.

Hey, wait… Is it possible to build SDL with X support under Win32?
(There are X servers for Win32, so it might be useful.) Did you
compile your own SDL lib?

//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

.- Audiality -----------------------------------------------.
| Free/Open Source audio engine for games and multimedia. |
| MIDI, modular synthesis, real time effects, scripting,… |
`-----------------------------------> http://audiality.org -’
http://olofson.nethttp://www.reologica.se


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did you check out your compiler for viruses?

a friend of mine told me a while back his compiler was infected and kept
making infected exe’s whenever he compiled.

he was using msvc (i think version 6).> ----- Original Message -----

From: 3109@fakemind.com (3109)
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [SDL] Program trying to access Internet?

Here’s an update. I just recompiled the code, and the same thing happens.
When it starts ZoneAlarm pops up saying it blocked my program. The logs
don’t give any indication as to what it thinks my program is doing though.
I
have the complete source code and so I know theres no network code inside
the source. I seriously doubt SDL puts network code inside programs - and
Ive scanned the program with the newest virus definitions from McAfee and
it’s not infected. Has anybody else ever come across this problem? Anybody
know anyway that I can find out what inside the program is trying to
access
the internet? Any help will be great! :slight_smile:

  • Jeremiah

---------- Original Message -----------
From: David Olofson
To: sdl at libsdl.org
Sent: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 18:32:21 +0100
Subject: Re: [SDL] Program trying to access Internet?

On Thursday 08 January 2004 00.36, 3109 wrote:
[…]

ZoneAlarm still says it tries to access the internet (anybody know
of any free unzipper that handles tar.gz for the SDL version for
MinGW?).

Try 7-zip. It’s free/open source, has a GUI and (unlike WinZip) it
even handles recent versions of bzip2.

Anyway, Im just really baffled at why my program that I
coded myself from scratch is trying to access the internet when I
didnt code anything like that into the code and I cant find any
virus in the program that might be the cause. Anybody have any
suggestions on how to investigate this further?

That is weird… Maybe you’ve found an unknown virus? :wink:

Is it possible for ZoneAlarm to make the offending call generate a
signal or something? If it is, you could run your program in a
debugger and look at the stack backtrace once ZoneAlarm shuts it
down.

Hey, wait… Is it possible to build SDL with X support under Win32?
(There are X servers for Win32, so it might be useful.) Did you
compile your own SDL lib?

//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

.- Audiality -----------------------------------------------.
| Free/Open Source audio engine for games and multimedia. |
| MIDI, modular synthesis, real time effects, scripting,… |
`-----------------------------------> http://audiality.org -’
http://olofson.nethttp://www.reologica.se


SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
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Use outpost, zonealarm is an extremely bad firewall. I don’t know if it supports RAW sockets yet, but when I used zonealarm it didn’t. Someone can tunnel right through it with RAW sockets. Not really related to your problem but I like to warn people against my troubles with that firewall.

Alan Wolfe wrote:did you check out your compiler for viruses?

a friend of mine told me a while back his compiler was infected and kept
making infected exe’s whenever he compiled.

he was using msvc (i think version 6).> ----- Original Message -----

From: 3109@fakemind.com (3109)
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [SDL] Program trying to access Internet?

Here’s an update. I just recompiled the code, and the same thing happens.
When it starts ZoneAlarm pops up saying it blocked my program. The logs
don’t give any indication as to what it thinks my program is doing though.
I
have the complete source code and so I know theres no network code inside
the source. I seriously doubt SDL puts network code inside programs - and
Ive scanned the program with the newest virus definitions from McAfee and
it’s not infected. Has anybody else ever come across this problem? Anybody
know anyway that I can find out what inside the program is trying to
access
the internet? Any help will be great! :slight_smile:

  • Jeremiah

---------- Original Message -----------
From: David Olofson
To: sdl at libsdl.org
Sent: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 18:32:21 +0100
Subject: Re: [SDL] Program trying to access Internet?

On Thursday 08 January 2004 00.36, 3109 wrote:
[…]

ZoneAlarm still says it tries to access the internet (anybody know
of any free unzipper that handles tar.gz for the SDL version for
MinGW?).

Try 7-zip. It’s free/open source, has a GUI and (unlike WinZip) it
even handles recent versions of bzip2.

Anyway, Im just really baffled at why my program that I
coded myself from scratch is trying to access the internet when I
didnt code anything like that into the code and I cant find any
virus in the program that might be the cause. Anybody have any
suggestions on how to investigate this further?

That is weird… Maybe you’ve found an unknown virus? :wink:

Is it possible for ZoneAlarm to make the offending call generate a
signal or something? If it is, you could run your program in a
debugger and look at the stack backtrace once ZoneAlarm shuts it
down.

Hey, wait… Is it possible to build SDL with X support under Win32?
(There are X servers for Win32, so it might be useful.) Did you
compile your own SDL lib?

//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

.- Audiality -----------------------------------------------.
| Free/Open Source audio engine for games and multimedia. |
| MIDI, modular synthesis, real time effects, scripting,… |
`-----------------------------------> http://audiality.org -’
http://olofson.nethttp://www.reologica.se


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http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
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