Named suddenly launching at startup

When my installation of OS X 10.6.4 startups the built-in firewall is asking for permission to allow "named" to accept incoming network connections.
I understand that named is a daemon responsible for, or at least related to, DNS resolution. Is that right?
I'm concerned that I may have inadvertently ran malicious software, is there any way of figuring out what is calling named at boot?
/System/Library/StartupItems is empty. There nothing unusual in Login Items of my user account prefs. I'm not seeing any unusual processes in Activity Monitor. And I used Lingon to see what launchd processes are in use by my system and quickly got overwhelmed.
I recently ran WaterRoof and NoobProof (each are GUI frontends for the ipfw firewall.) Could that be responsible for the launching of named at startup? If so how can I get back my default settings, I thought I had by choosing Clean system from WaterRoof to reset everything back to the system default.)
How can I figure out what's causing named to ask permission for incoming connections? Should I allow it to?
—Mark
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In you Accounts section of System Preferences, the fourth tab on the right, Start up Items. Whatever you want to be there on launch, drag that application into that Start Up window.
Whatever the application is, will only be activated on a Restart.
Don't you like the Trash can in the dock. The other day I was forced to use windows because the device I am using only runs on a PC, and I couldn't find the trash can, or recycle bin as they call it. So I am completely lost trying to find this thing and it was there all along sitting amongst all the other icons on the desktop. I felt so silly.
regards roam

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