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Retrospect wants to accept incoming connections


murdocj

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I kept getting a message from Windows Firewall saying that Retrospect Express HD wants to accept incoming connections. I was leaving it blocked but it looks like my last automatic backup didn't run so I finally gave in and unblocked it, but this makes me uncomfortable. Anyone know why it wants to accept incoming connections, or whether blocking it actually causes problems?

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Thanks for the information. What's odd is that Retrospect ran fine for a couple of months w/o giving me the message. But at least this makes some sense, I couldn't imagine why it would need to accept remote connections to do a backup.

 

I did go into Windows firewall and changed the setting so it would only accept loopback connections.

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