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PureBasic IDE phoning home
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 6:29 pm
by offsides
No paranoia here, but why does the IDE try accessing the internet, usually when loading a program?
Checking for upgrades?
Frequency of use tally?
Stealing my elegant code?
(Wait, I said no paranoia)
Thanks,
Bill
Re: PureBasic IDE phoning home
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 9:07 pm
by Trond
It shouldn't do that. Either you have a virus, or you have a paranoid firewall that detects the connection between the IDE and the debugged program.
Re: PureBasic IDE phoning home
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 9:26 pm
by freak
It doesn't do that.
Re: PureBasic IDE phoning home
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 12:03 am
by rsts
It's never done that for me.
Maybe your app is accessing something?
Re: PureBasic IDE phoning home
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 12:11 am
by IdeasVacuum
....is it a lib that has automatic update checking perhaps?
Re: PureBasic IDE phoning home
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 11:04 am
by Nituvious
What IP address does it try to connect to?
Re: PureBasic IDE phoning home
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 6:57 pm
by Rook Zimbabwe
If you are using Windows 7 I had the same experience a while back. It was Win7...
I think I posted how I turned this off (run as admin I think!)
Re: PureBasic IDE phoning home
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:41 pm
by Demivec
Perhaps it's anti-virus software comparing your program's checksum to an updated database.
Re: PureBasic IDE phoning home
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 5:20 pm
by offsides
I noticed the behavior when fiddling with some of the requesters that access files or drives. I think it's a network query of some kind, as in polling for all drives, including networks.
At any rate, it's not important and can be turned off easily enough.
Besides, Freak's response answered the main question. (Thanks.)
Bill