by Zazz on Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:11 pm
If the program is not running you should not let them in. However, it probably does not matter if you do, because there is nothing listening on that port for them to connect to. It's strange that the firewall would even alert you to them connecting if there's nothing running -- are you sure it isn't running? It may have been minimized to the system tray or running in the background somehow.
It is normal for people to try to connect to you after you close it, though -- they don't know that you closed it, and their client still tries to connect. They're probably able to get to you because you have forwarded the bittorrent port in your router for the bittorrent download to work -- either that, or the bittorrent client may have forwarded the port for you; many of them do that now, without even asking!