Is this a virus?

This is the Adobe License Manager Service.

Let it run.

<Paul McCartney>Let it be</Paul McCartney>

what mat and john yoko said…

Thanks folks. How come PCTools assumes it’s a virus? Odd.

you know, just a thought. it’s not unheard of for a virus to take the name of a known application. what are the time, date stamp and size of the executable in question?

I’ve put two screenshots here – www.studioenergy.co.uk

Actually what the software is indicating is that Adobe is calling home way too often if it monitors the connection and considers it a ‘flood’. This is a technique used by spyware to get access to your computer, to put it simply, it keeps knocking at the door until someone answers. This is an issue with virtual port 113 ‘ident’ that ‘shakes hands’ with you computer to give it access to certain server software.

You should go to Gibson Research at <http://grc.com/default.htm> for more information about this.

Don’t really understand this but I don’t mind it ‘knocking’ and doing what it has to do as long as this is part of the prog and not something else.

Well maybe the software is not up-to-date on the Adobe stuff. I’ve had issues with my virus software making reports about files that it uses. Strange, but true.