Quick Tango Icons for Win Question

Discussion in 'Software' started by pondhopper, Mar 28, 2008.

  1. pondhopper

    pondhopper Private E-2

    Nothin' major,just a question out of curiosity. Awhile back, I decided to try Tango icons from another site for my Win XP machine & when, I first came back on the internet- my Comodo Firewall informed me that shell32.dll was trying to access the internet, which I denied. Anyway, the icons didn't match my theme IMO, so I installed them later w/o a hitch.

    But I don't know much & was wondering why Shell32.dll tried to do the accessing & apparently, via googling- nobody's ever had an issue with spyware in conjunction with the icons..to my knowledge.

    Just curious

    Thanks in advance!
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi


    Dont have a clearcut answer for you but at times some core OS files do flag up on a Firewall, its not that they are accessing the internet, but accessing the local network, a few defrag applications, O&O defrag for one I knwo uses tcp/ip to control its network capabilities and flags up in firewalls, but is not actually connecting to the net.

    Off-hand thats my rough quick guess.
     
  3. pondhopper

    pondhopper Private E-2

    ^ Thanks, that's kinda what I thought, but even though I researched the install package beforehand- as best I could- I'm always leery about downloading programs from sites other than Majorgeeks et al, which I don't have much experience with. Thought I'd check here & see if anyone knew of any issues w/it.

    So, thanks again, because I've kept the zipped icon package, in case I change themes in the future & want to use it :)
     

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