GnuCash connects to the internet - Why?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Davy Jones <davyjones at dslextreme.com> writes:

> Thanks for the quick reply.
> I have ver. 2.2.6, build 7/30/08, running on Win2K.
> I am just concerned about security.  What is ORBit?

ORBit is the GNOME CORBA implementation.  It's used for IPC.
GConf in particular uses it.

-derek

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Quoting Davy Jones <davyjones at dslextreme.com>:
>>
>>> I use Zone Alarm and it prompts me to allow gnucash access to the
>>> internet on startup, twice.
>>> I would allow this by default if I knew what it was trying to do.  The
>>> program fails to launch if I do not give it access.
>>> What is the purpose of this mandatory connection?
>>
>> It's part of ORBit...  For GnuCash to talk to the configuration
>> server.  It's outside of GnuCash's hands; it's all part of the
>> ORBit/GConf code.
>>
>> What version of GnuCash are you using?  I thought this was fixed
>> months ago.
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
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>>
>> -derek
>
>

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