Earlier, I wrote: >It appears that Quicken's TurboTax income tax preparation software (WinNT) >periodically polls n Quicken site on port 5282; outgoing port is random, >in the 1400's. IP address is 206.154.102.89, which resolves to >marimbaqw.quicken.com > >My local firewall is blocking these. This polling seems to go on even >when TurboTax is not running. > >Anyone have any info on this? > Thanks to: "Joseph T. Galietto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Don Kelloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, One of my colleagues here responded: >Both Quicken & TurboTax use a software update mechanism >based on push technology from Marimba. For further info >see http://www.marimba.com/solutions/intuit.htm. On '95 >I seem to recall that this feature can be turned off. When >enabled I believe it does set up a background task that runs >even when your Quicken/TurboTax apps are not being used. This seems to be it. Thanks to all. -- Tim Evans | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Experimental Station (302) 695-9353/8638 (FAX) | P.O. Box 80357 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wilmington, Delaware 19880-0357 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
