Office: outgoing connection alert

[F]

I recently reinstalled Win XP Pro and Office 2000.

According to my firewall, Excel, and now Powerpoint (although I have yet
to use it on this installation), are 'trying to communicate with a
remote computer'. The latest report is:

Direction: outgoing
Local Point: 0.0.0.0, port 1053
Adapter: N/A
Remote Point: localhost [127.0.0.1], port 37926
Protocol: UDP

Application path: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\POWERPNT.EXE
Description: powerpnt.exe
File version: (null)
Created: 2002/6/23, 22:02:24
Modified: 2002/6/23, 22:02:24
Accessed: 2005/10/24, 10:50:57

RuleId = 67108885

Can anyone tell me what is going on and whether or not I should allow
the 'communication'?

TIA.

 

[Bob I]

Yes, 127.0.0.1 is the local host. I.E. Your computer is talking to "itself".

 

[F]

Yes, 127.0.0.1 is the local host. I.E. Your computer is talking to
"itself".

Thanks - I knew 127.0.0.1 was the local host but was suspicious as I
couldn't see why it would want to talk to itself!