Firewall..

[PaolinoPaperino]

After a couple of forced format of my hardrive, thx to someone who decided to create a bunch of viruses happy to find accomodation on my pc, I had the brilliant idea to install a firewall.
Everything fine, in the settings any process that requires to connect to the internet it's blocked and I get a notification message.
But I have been surprised to notice that playing the WE campaign, at the start/load of a campaign,
I get a notification of internet access tempted:

process: Shog_CPP
application: ShogunW.exe
Version 1, 0, 0, 1
Destination: 131.107.99.244:HTTP

Any clue? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-inquisitive.gif

[HicRic]

I imagine it's just the game having a poke at your PC to see if it wil be able to connect to the net if you want to play multiplayer. Although why it should turn up then is beyond me

[barocca]

it is WAAAY more sinister than that

that IP number is a worry
Code Sample Search results for: 131.107.99.244

OrgName: Microsoft Corp
OrgID: MSFT
Address: One Microsoft Way
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US
NetRange: 131.107.0.0 - 131.107.255.255[/QUOTE]

all i can say is "What The ..."

[PaolinoPaperino]

Maybe it could be useful:



http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/sd/firewall.bmp