Hello
I have just started getting ridiculous amounts alerts from my firewall program (ZoneAlarm by ZoneLabs), which say that it had blocked 'Generic Host Process for Win32' from accepting a connection from the internet. When I look in the program list in ZoneAlarm I see that this program 'Generic Host Process for Win32 Services' with file name/path C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\svchost.exe is set not to allow it to have server permission for the Internet Zone. It is however set to have access permission.
I don't know what this program is, but does it require server permission for the Internet zone to work properly?
Also when ZoneAlarm says 'blocked...from accepting a connection from the internet' does this mean the program in question was trying to act as a server? (I assume that if it were to accept a connection from the internet this would imply that it had not made the connection request itself and so would be trying to act as a server but not sure).
I don't know what has caused ZoneAlarm to suddenly act like this. Before this happened I had installed xampp (so that I can use my computer as a server to test php pages) but I don't see how this could have affected ZoneAlarm. Also I had decided to have a closer look at ZoneAlarm just before this happened but didn't notice making any changes to it whatsoever.
Is it safe to change 'Generic Host Process for Win32 Services' so it has server permission for the Internet Zone? And if it is why didn't it need to do this before?
Any help most welcome!
AM