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Jerome_BARET

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Message 5198 - Posted: 3 Aug 2006, 7:21:07 UTC

BitDefender antispyware notify me that boinc.exe receive active content (surely ActiveX but may be Java Applet/Script) from 66.249.93.104, 64.233.183.104, 66.249.93.99, 64.233.183.147 and 64.233.183.99
These sites correspond to google.com in french (not Google France)
I don't think that BOINC needs this ActiveX.

So can I refuse them without create problems ? and why google spend ActiveX ?
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Message 5217 - Posted: 6 Aug 2006, 18:01:10 UTC
Last modified: 6 Aug 2006, 18:04:24 UTC

It sure receives the project clients, which is an executable file - and thus quite active ;-)

It is supposed to download the project clients and will not do anything without those. Do not inhibit the downloads!


Anything that comes from Google is not really needed (the download is needed for testing but the contents are not needed), it is just a reference download and should not contain active contents except for a few lines JavaScript.
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