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audition and windows firewall

Jul 24, 2012 4:48 PM

I've scrapped the security I've been using on my machine in favor of Microsoft Security Essentials.  I've also enabled Windows Firewall to see how it works.  (I've got a router, so I haven't been using a firewall, but I wanted to see what effect it might have.)  Okay, so I tried loading a third-party plugin into a CS6 session, and I get a Windows Security Alert telling me 'Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program', and it describes Audition, not the third-party plugin, as the reason.

 

Okay, why would it do that? 

 

It gives me this option if I want it: 'Allow Adobe Audition CS6 to communicate on these networks:

 

* Private networks, such as my home or work network.

 

* Public networks...'

 

Okay, communicate?  What does Audition communicate with when I'm online?  Is it just the online Help?  And why would Windows Firewall block that?

380 Views   2 Replies   Latest reply: therealdobro, Jul 24, 2012 8:00 PM
 
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  • Charles VW
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    1. Charles VW,
    Jul 24, 2012 7:45 PM   in reply to therealdobro
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    Audition is simply communicating with a separate headless app that comes with Audition that does the plug-in scanning.  Because there's a lot of bad plug-ins out there that can crash an application simply by scanning them, we created the separate app that does all of our plug-in scanning in the background.  They have to be separate to keep Audition from crashing on bad plug-ins during scan.  So the network activity that the firewall is complaining about is simply Audition talking to the dvaaudiofilterscan application in the background that is on a localhost port (i.e. same machine, not talking to anything outside your computer).

     

    The same goes for the dynamiclinkmediaserver (aka DLMS) which loads certain files in a separate application because it uses importer code from Premiere Pro (the most recent versions of Photoshop and Lightroom also use DLMS).

     

    Lastly, you may sometimes see a firewall message if you have EUCON control surface devices because they talk to the computer via ethernet.  So if you choose the EUCON control surface plug-in, that can spawn firewall messages as well.

     
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    2. therealdobro,
    Jul 24, 2012 8:00 PM   in reply to Charles VW
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    Got it.  Thanks, Charles.

     
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