Zone Alarm -- ViewMgr.exe

[Nahotnoj]

Within the past few days on my family's comp, I have been getting ZoneAlarm messages saying a program called ViewMgr.exe was trying to acces the internet. Not knowing what the thing was, i denied it access and did a search through all files and folders for "ViewMgr.exe", but nothing was found. Now, the message pops up at completely random times, and to be safe, i keep denieing it.

Does anyone know what this is/does? Should I allow it to access the internet?

[WeekendLazyness]

It's a media player program that is installed with AIM that also happens to be spyware.

http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?showtopic=13470

[bluemicrobyte]

GREAT ADVICE ABOUT GRANTNING PROGRAMS ACCESS TO THE INTERNET: ask yourself these questions:
1) Do I recognize this program?
2) Did I just open a program that needs the internet?
3) What did I have for breakfast?

(ok not the last one)

ANSWERS:
if you answered NO to EITHER of the first two, DO NOT grant the program internet access, rather block it forever.

[WeekendLazyness]

GREAT ADVICE ABOUT GRANTNING PROGRAMS ACCESS TO THE INTERNET: ask yourself these questions:
1) Do I recognize this program?
2) Did I just open a program that needs the internet?
3) What did I have for breakfast?

(ok not the last one)

ANSWERS:
if you answered NO to EITHER of the first two, DO NOT grant the program internet access, rather block it forever.
You should write a book.

SVCHOST.EXE tried to access the Internet, and I didn't know what it was. I deleted it from my system.

[bluemicrobyte]

SVCHOST.exe is a program that comes with your computer. I have no idea what it does, or what its purpose in life is. I just block it forever. (who knows, it could be some vital system process that keeps your computer from exploding!)

[TranquilNightElf]

Svchost.exe is stans alone process name for services that run from dlls.
It checks the services portion of the registry to construct a list of services that it needs to load.
Like W32time, Themes,EventSystem...exactly what they are , i'm not sure


Edit:the file usually is in c:\windows\System32 otherwise it might be a trojan, spyware or the like

[Exedore]

svchost.exe runs services from DLL files. Usually you have at least 3 running as SYSTEM, LOCAL SERVICE, and NETWORK SERVICE. The copy running as a NETWORK SERVICE is probably the one that you're blocking is most likely one of the few that looks for other computers on the network.

[WeekendLazyness]

Yes, it was a joke....