Hello,

I have been running the boinc application for a while now with no trouble, but after a OS reinstall, and upgrade of the client to 5.8.16 my firewall (bullguard) has been detecting and blocking a "nuke attack" from 140.142.20.103, now this take you to a page that lookslike the rosetta homepage, is this right and is it OK to set the firewall to allow this?

Can anybody answer why it is being detected as a Attack?

Thanks

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All BOINC activity on the internet is originated at your PC. Just like your browser does. All other activity done via TCP/IP is done on your machine's loopback connection. This is basically a way for one program on your machine to use TCP/IP to interact with another program. BOINC Manager uses this loopback connection to interact with Rosetta as it runs. So, BOINC applications establish themselves as a "server" on your machine, but only within the loopback.

See also, discussion here.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Thanks for that, it's strange I done a search for "nuke" before posting this and got zero results.

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Had a look through the log, I am curious to why my machine would try to act as another another machine on the local network, rather than identify itself properly, but this problem appears to be stopping the boinc client from operating until I restart it, I cannot get around the program being detected as an attack, so for the time being have disabled rosetta, will try again when got more time.

Will also forward to Bullguard for some input from them.

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