i'm not doubting you i know i saw other issue in here about a router problem. i known the win xp fire wall popped up all the time for me when i start minilogin,world,and boot5 zones it also whines when i start EQ i just mark them as an exceptions so i don't have to deal with the popups from the firewall. My set up is all on one comp and my settings are all localhost no ip and the firewall will whine if i remove it from exceptions.
Edit: also when i start eq it also trys calling out to the outside world from my box but mine calls out to my isp dns server
