My personal firewall flagged the fact that the Skinker is trying to connect to the Internet. Why?
The Skinkers application needs to contact the Internet occasionally to see if there are any messages it needs to display. If there are, and these messages contain multimedia content, the Skinker will also download these assets in the background. The application will also send back anonymous statistics (such as the number of clicks on a particular link) to our server. These are the only reasons why the Skinker needs to access the Internet so you should allow it through your firewall.