Warning I'm no serious computer geek but reasonably adept.

The free version of Zone Alarm fire wall has an icon in the task bar that shows incoming and outgoing internet activity.

Starting early this week this little widget bounces full bars consistently, it may wind down to half bars for a while. In the past it might do this for a while(hours maybe), then stop.

It continues even if I "suspend all networking activity" and/or "suspend". If I close down the Boinc manager the traffic virtually ceases. At least to me, this means that Boinc is the issue not some update loading in the background.

I checked the transfers tab and there is nothing in the cue. I've tried tweaking band width allowances. No change. I've tried various forms of hard scheduling. No change.

I'm running version 6.4.5 on vista with an Nvidia 8500 graphics card.

If network activity is suspended and there is nothing in the cue, what the heck is it doing?

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BOINC its parts (client, GUI, screen saver) talk to each other on TCP port 31416. ZA sees this as network/internet activity. It can only be solved by putting BOINC in ZA's trusted zone (or whatever it's called, DMZ).

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Gave full permission to Boinc and Grid Republic and the individual projects. No change in ZA's behavior. I'm running ZA 8.029.

I occasionally get Web browser freezes now, more than I did in the past. The two may not be related but they two issues seem related.

Are convinced this is port noise?

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Can you point me to the instructions to install as a service?

TYIA

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The Big BOINC 6 Answer Thread

I installed as protected service and no change in behavior.

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If you install BOINC as a service, and exit BOINC manager, you wont see it, for it is doubtlessly the RPC over port 31416 between BOINC manager and the BOINC core client. Some firewalls will get to such state where the whole system gets sluggish.

What about the traffic between CC and the application? (Just curious :-)

Gruß,
Gundolf

Forgot to exit the manager. Thank you for your patience and persistence

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Gundolf,

AFAIK it's in shared memory, not going via the localhost.

Makes sense.

Thanks!
Gundolf