Strange ZoneAlarm message

I installed Zone Alarm today and when I launched Train Similator I got an alert saying that ZoneAlarm blocked "Program: Microsoft Train Simulator Patch v1.4". The program itself seems to be unaffected. Does anybody know anything about this? Did MS package some sort of program that transmits data whenever I use MSTS?Thanks
Joe

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I have ZA, I installed the patch before I had it tho. I'd disarm ZA and install the MSTS patch, then bring it back online. Never had something like that before..Jeffrey

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Where can I get the 1.4 patch for MSTS?

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Never had that happen.

All ways remembering BigBoy 4023 and her run through Green River Wyoming on train 359 a 600 car mixed freight with a yellow Union Pacifc caboose on the rear.

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>I have ZA, I installed the patch before I had it tho. I'd
>disarm ZA and install the MSTS patch, then bring it back
>online. Never had something like that before..Jeffrey NEVER DISARM ZONE ALARM (or any other firewall). Doing so leaves you open to attack. Find out WHY Zone Alarm is freaking out then make changes accordingly.I run two firewalls and have been doing so for over two years now. One firewall is part of my router and each computer in this house runs Zone Alarm. I have NEVER had a reason to disable either, except of course to update Zone Alarm itself.One cannot relax on internet security.Cheers,
Gary Cameron
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In the ZoneAlarm programs list, click properties on the "patch". Where does it say it's located?I'm not aware of any 1.4 patch, nor why it would try to run when you start MSTS.-Jeff

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Yeah I have the 1.4 patch. It was one of those updates MSTS gave out (might have been the Class 50)-Dave-Dave

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>Yeah I have the 1.4 patch. It was one of those updates MSTS
>gave out (might have been the Class 50) There isn't a V1.4 patch. The Class 50 and the SD40-2 is the V1.2 patch.

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It's located within my train simulator root directory. In my case it's D:/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Train Simulator/train.exe. I have the v1.2 patch but this v1.4 patch caught me off guard. I've never heard of it before, never knew I had it, and don't know why it's trying to access the internet.Joe

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Hi Joe,One of the items when debuging slow system with MSTS is to NOT have AV and firewalls running when MSTS is loaded.
ZA is known to cause problems on some machines.

Derek
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>It's located within my train simulator root directory. In
>my case it's D:/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Train
>Simulator/train.exe. I have the v1.2 patch but this v1.4
>patch caught me off guard. I've never heard of it before,
>never knew I had it, and don't know why it's trying to
>access the internet. Well, it's normal for the program to show up in the program list in ZA, because everything does, regardless of whether it accessess the internet. And looking at my MSTS in ZA, it also says patch v1.4. Strange, so 1.2 installs 1.4? Hmmm....Anyway, it shouldn't be asking for net access. The only communication it does is through send/don't send, and that is a process separate from the game .exe. I would just deny it access.-Jeff

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I have no idea why it should be trying to access the internet, but the patched version of train.exe shows as v1.4 in the properties box.Beer is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that.
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Yes, Mervyn, somebody else pointed that out a long time ago and when I checked my not updated to 1.2 version on the older WIN-98SE MSTS the Train.exe Properties / Version says that it is 1.4 and the Train.exe file is dated December 2001.The WIN-XP MSTS which has been updated with Version 1.2 also shows Version 1.4 and the Train.exe date is December 2001 too.The Golden Rule when using MSTS is that there must be nothing else running in the background, no Firewall, Virus Checker, Network or other SERVICES not required !O t t o

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Hi Otto,There is only one version of MSTS and it is for 98, ME, w2k and XP.

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