why is DVDShrink trying to connect to network? [Archive]

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IGuaNAdoN

9th March 2004, 00:58

I've noticed when I'm online DVDShrink trys to connect to the network. Why is my firewall telling me this? I use dialup and it seems it only does this when I'm connected.

9th March 2004, 01:25

Sounds rather odd, it's never done that here. Sure it's not infected with a virus or smt?

-tf

IGuaNAdoN

9th March 2004, 01:30

well ...should not be a virus. I use an active scan with firewall, virus defs are updated several times a day. I just removed DVDShrink from firewall list and I'm trying to recreate.

well its seems like i cannot recreate this ...so ill just wait till it happens again. it does not happen every time.

mrbass

9th March 2004, 02:12

dvdshrink doesn't nor ever has

dvdshrink

9th March 2004, 04:57

People do report it from time to time. Maybe one of the system DLLs DVD Shrink uses is trying to auto-update or something, who knows. But there is definitely no code in DVD Shrink which connects to the internet. The author doesn't even know how to do this ;-)

KungFuCow

9th March 2004, 05:29

Do you use any DirectX components? I think I saw something a while back about some DX components connecting to the net for some reason or another. This was over a big stink where people thought ATI's drivers were phoning home and in the end, it turned out to be DX.

IGuaNAdoN

9th March 2004, 05:39

i was thinking just that Mr. Shrink. thanks for the great program! with a 6,5,3 and 1 year old, this program is a life saver ...not mine ...theirs. :D

int 21h

10th March 2004, 07:04

Does DVDShrink link against WS2_32.dll? (A Windows Socket component) Maybe there is some library function in use from this file that is triggering this reaction.

(Edit: Edited a bit to more of a question, its ReJig that links against WS2_32.dll for sure :o )

Nic

10th March 2004, 10:35

(OT:The reason Rejig does is for those handy byte swapping functions like ntohl and htons ;) I normally use Macros called SWAP32 and SWAP that I wrote to do it, but probably was lazy and used the network functions. Look in SupMux.cpp for the code :) ....Still would never connect to the internet or outside, you'd at least have to do a WSAStartup first (stupid windows))