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I got three security alerts from windows firewall booting up my machine this morning, about phonenumberregistry.exe, bluetoothdispatcher.exe, and rendezvous.exe. Worried, I googled them, and found one match that said they were related to the Nokia series 40 SDK. Which I just installed yesterday. Whew.

If you haven’t installed an SDK and are getting these errors, maybe be a little more worried. I guess this should be a lesson in naming your services with non-scary names (like phone number registry, jeez.) (I guess malware hackers do this for the most part anyway.)

On a side note, what the hell is wrong with windows firewall? I mean I’ll get these notices about outgoing connections, which is great, and the options to “keep blocking” or “unblock”, but while this dialog is displaying, windows is already allowing the program to communicate back and forth. What’s the point of that? I’ve played whole half life 2 games and then came back to the desktop where it says “windows firewall is blocking (half life 2). Should it continue blocking this program?” And I want to sarcastically say, “yeah, great job, windows.” But I hit unblock in case it actually ever starts to do anything.

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