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COM surrogate

Summer

Hello,

I received a pop-up from Sophos Endpoint Security and Control asking about:

"COM surrogate

a new or modified application has requested network access

If you want to allow access to this application, you must add its checksum to the list of checksums that the firewall recognizes

O add the checksum to existing checksums for this application

O replace any existing checksum for this application

O block this application until it is restarted"

which one should I choose?

I tried to search online but a lot of forums and websites gave me mixed answers as to what this program is/if it is harmful. 

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also, on a different note, my AOL instant messenger stopped working around the same time that Sophos quarantined something called "divEA9A.tmp". I can no longer see text in the AIM chat boxes. Are these related? (This has never happened to me before and downloading/uninstalling and reinstalling AIM does not do a thing) I even allowed the file (divEA9A) to have access but it still didn't change my AIM.

Thanks for any help or information.

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    I'm new to using Sophos but I find the explanation for this to be inadequate.  If Sophos is going to notify us that an unknown program is trying to update then how will we ever know if it is a legitimate program?  Of course we'll never update it but what if it is something we really want or need?  How can we discover what program is trying to get updated?  Major, major flaw here.

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    I'm new to using Sophos but I find the explanation for this to be inadequate.  If Sophos is going to notify us that an unknown program is trying to update then how will we ever know if it is a legitimate program?  Of course we'll never update it but what if it is something we really want or need?  How can we discover what program is trying to get updated?  Major, major flaw here.

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