Using blinkx with a personal software firewall

If your computer is protected by a firewall, your firewall may display messages that blinkx is trying to act as a server or trying to access the Internet.

You should set your firewall to allow blinkx to act as a server and to access the Internet, so it can index the local documents you want to be able to search and search for web results.

For example:

ZoneAlarm Pro

blinkxinstaller.exe is trying to access the Internet

Check the Remember this setting box and click on Allow

This executable needs to access the Internet, so that you can register blinkx.


blinkx is trying to access "http://www.blinkx.com/help"

Check the Remember this setting box and click on Allow

blinkx needs to access this website in order to display online help.

 

The blinkx application is trying to access the Internet

Check the Remember this setting box and click on Allow

The blinkx application needs to access the Internet to search for web results.

 

iblinkx.exe is trying to act as a server

Check the Remember this setting box and click on Allow

This executable needs to act as a local server, so that blinkx can index the local documents you want to be able to search.

blinkx.exe is trying to access the Internet

Check the Remember this setting box and click on Allow

This executable needs to access the Internet, so it can search for web results.


blinkxstop.exe is trying to access the Internet

If you are uninstalling blinkx, this executable needs to access the Internet, so it can un-register blinkx.

 

Note: depending on which firewall you are using, you may also get messages that ablinkx.exe, oblinkx.exe, eblinkx.exe or pblinkx.exe are trying to access the Internet. In order to enable blinkx' file and email indexing service, you should set your firewall to allow these executables to access the Internet.

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