I don’t know why I’m the only one who has run into ashquick.exe needing to get out. That’s strange. I’ll try to play around a little more to see exactly what triggered it. I guess I’m only halfway assuming that it was my outgoing email test. But that’s what my firewall popup coincided with. Generally when I see an unexpected, but assumedly benign popup, I create a (temporary) allow rule “for this app, for this IP address, for this port” and then go back later and inspect the created rule to see if it needs modification or deletion. ashquick.exe is the app that popped up for me.