ZoneAlarm and spoolsv.exe

[Jeremy C B Nicoll]

XP Pro, SP2

When my machine is booting, after the desktop has first been shown but
while the machine is still doing things, ZoneAlarm pops up a window
asking if spoolsv.exe can have internet access.

I know it's the print spooler, but there are no documents waiting to
print. The default printer is set to print-to-file. There are a
couple of definitions for printers which I occasionally use with a
dedicated cat5 cable between the laptop's RJ45 port and the printer,
but I don't understand why spoolsv.exe would need net access, and
anyway neither printer has work waiting. Indeed the Network
Connections screen shows that all my dial-up connections are
disconnected, WiFi not connected, and LAN disabled. So how do I find
out what it is trying to do?

The spoolsv.exe program is in C:\WINDOWS\system32 and scans cleanly
using NOD32 antivirus.

 

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Jeremy C B Nicoll escreveu:

XP Pro, SP2

When my machine is booting, after the desktop has first been shown but
while the machine is still doing things, ZoneAlarm pops up a window
asking if spoolsv.exe can have internet access.

I know it's the print spooler, but there are no documents waiting to
print. The default printer is set to print-to-file. There are a
couple of definitions for printers which I occasionally use with a
dedicated cat5 cable between the laptop's RJ45 port and the printer,
but I don't understand why spoolsv.exe would need net access, and
anyway neither printer has work waiting. Indeed the Network
Connections screen shows that all my dial-up connections are
disconnected, WiFi not connected, and LAN disabled. So how do I find
out what it is trying to do?

The spoolsv.exe program is in C:\WINDOWS\system32 and scans cleanly
using NOD32 antivirus.

 

[Harry Avant]

I have three computers running on a small home net and I also have the
spooler asking for permission at times. It can happen when I'm pasting
a large amount of text and at other times. While it asks for net
access the address is always part of my net and not outside of it.

I'm not sure but I think it uses the internal net to both "talk" from
one computer to another and for a comuter to move data from and to
itself.

Take a look and see it the ip address as part of the ZA window is your
internal net. If so there's not much to worry about.

Harry