[Chimera-users] [EXTERNAL] Need help- Why there is network connection

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Siddhartha,
	Any cursory amount of googling would have revealed that werfault.exe is Windows Error Reporting and has nothing to do with Chimera per se: About WER - Win32 apps | Microsoft Docs <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wer/about-wer>

--Eric

> On Apr 13, 2021, at 11:22 PM, Siddhartha Pradhan (Contractor) <siddhartha.pradhan1 at gilead.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
>  
> Good day!!
> Thanks much for the email.
>  
> We use “Carbon Black” tool to find the network connections of particular application.
>  
> We got this connection from “werfault.exe” which is a child process of chimera.exe.
>  
> Please find the attached screenshot for your reference.
>  
> Hope this helps.
>  
> Let us know in case any queries.
>  
> Regards,
> Siddhartha
>  
>  
> From: Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 9:08 PM
> To: Siddhartha Pradhan (Contractor) <siddhartha.pradhan1 at gilead.com>
> Cc: Chimera <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Chimera-users] Need help- Why there is network connection
>  
> AFAIK, Chimera does not connect to that URL.  You would have to provide details about what you were doing in Chimera when this connection occurred for me to help any further.
>  
> --Eric
> 
> 
> On Apr 13, 2021, at 6:54 AM, Siddhartha Pradhan (Contractor) <siddhartha.pradhan1 at gilead.com <mailto:siddhartha.pradhan1 at gilead.com>> wrote:
>  
> Hi,
>  
> Before we install any  software in our system within Gilead organization, we do the software security assessment. During our assessment for " UCSF ChimeraX v1.1", we found below external network connection is being made.
>  
> Connection to 13.107.4.52 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/13.107.4.52__;!!Dq7g1IpY!zXmXqV_hu8JQE3MNrgYdN4nMu05GdFqoHmwl8ebTLusxtjEk9L0OrhbfrAUDPwpwf1WF0NY$> on tcp/80 (www.msftconnecttest.com <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.msftconnecttest.com/__;!!Dq7g1IpY!zXmXqV_hu8JQE3MNrgYdN4nMu05GdFqoHmwl8ebTLusxtjEk9L0OrhbfrAUDPwpwhsZZNHo$>)
>  
> •             Why the network connection is being made and what is the reason behind it?
> •             Is there any sorts of data transfer is being happened from the user system, if yes then what kind of data are being transferred?
> •             Is there any settings in the application to disable the network connections?
> •             If users can use the software to export/import data. Is there any cloud service associated with this?
>  
> It would be of great help if you can kindly give a clarity for the above network connection ASAP.
>  
> Regards,
> Siddhartha
>  
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