Firewall keeps warning me of 127.0.0.1 connection!

Thomas Ching

• 2014年06月18日 15:09

I have read good reviews on Capture One Pro 7 and therefore downloaded a trial version for evaluation. The installation itself went smoothly. But when I try to open the software, my firewall (Comodo Firewall version 7.0.317799.4142) keeps warning me of ImgCoreProcess.exe trying to remote connect to 127.0.0.1 TCP on port 45888. I do not exactly know what that is. But it seems that C1 Pro is trying to establish a network connection which my firewall intercepts and blocks for security reasons.

I may be paranoid, but since this is the computer on which I do internet banking and various transactions, I have to be perfectly sure that every piece of software installed is safe. Honestly I am a bit worried. Could anyone advise me what to do? Thanks a lot!

(By the way, my computer is running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I believe it is virus/trojan free as it is scanned daily.)

Thomas Ching

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  Keith Reeder

  • 2014年06月18日 16:45

  Thomas,
  
  Capture One "phones home" as part of the licence validation process, and presumably that's all your seeing here.
  
  I've never heard of a single security issue being associated with this behaviour, but I've just tested and can confirm that Capture One will run quite happily without there being a live internet connection, so you can always disconnect before firing up the programme.
  
  I wouldn't bother, personally.

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  PhaseoneUser55657

  • 2014年06月19日 11:20

  Little thought. 127.0.0.1 is your machine loopback ip address, my guess is that they are using sockets (ethernt) to connect from the GUI to the background task ImgCoreProcess.exe. Many programs that use a background app for doing work and a forground GUI app use this method. Should not be an issue, as the communications from your machine to your machine. I am surprised that your firewall even cares about this or you have the paranoid level turned up to extreme.
  
  Robert

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  Drew Altdo

  • 2014年06月19日 12:00

  [quote="PhaseoneUser55657" wrote:
  my guess is that they are using sockets (ethernt) to connect from the GUI to the background task ImgCoreProcess.exe

  
  
  Correct.
  
  We use the Loopback IP for two separate steps. Activation, just to test that Port 80 is unrestricted.
  And when Processing images. We use the Loopback as a way to "send" the processed files "out" and then save them in your Output folder. It all stays local so no network is actually used, just our way to make the process a bit more efficient.

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  Thomas Ching

  • 2014年06月19日 12:35

  Thanks a lot for the clarification. That sets my heart at ease.

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