The long story shortened is that Adobe Acrobat Reader (I have Acrobat 8 Standard installed, but I don’t think it matters) use FNPLicensingServices.exe to check it license folder for a license. I didn’t notice any ill effects except in the following days when I clicked on any link to a PDF file it would open and display the PDF for about 10 seconds and then close and go to a completely blank page (closing the Acrobat tool bar and navigation pane.) It didn’t matter if I was in Internet Explorer or Firefox.
(C:\Program Files\Common Files\Macrovision Shared\FLEXnet Publisher\FNPLicensingServices.exe) So, I blocked it. I didn’t think I clicked on anything related to a Macrovision product since this is the folder the app is located in. Soon after this setup I was browsing the web and notice that a program FNPLicensingServices.exe was trying to access my computer. I have installed plenty of firewalls before and knew most of the apps (services and/or processes) to allow.
I was just experiencing a problem with Acrobat Reader (ver 8, but I don’t think it matters.) I had just installed Comodo firewall and was being harassed by all the normal prompts to allow or block different apps and services and started clicking allow or block.
