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hi guys iam new to daniwebs so if i am going about this the wrong way you will have to excuse me. I have a problem with xp home ie as soon as I turn on my pc or do a warm reboot I have to turn on windows firewall because if I don't it leaves my port 139 wide open to attack from who knows what this happends every time .I have zonealarm running & I have never had this sort of thing before and I have a generic host process for win32 (app svchost.exe asking to access the internet I carn't seem to find out what is goin on
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Hi,
Try downloading and using a third party firewall, they are better than windows anyway.
Try downloading and using a third party firewall, they are better than windows anyway.
BACK-UP.........Try one of the simple solutions first........and BACK-UP......
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Bob,
MAKE YOUR OWN ULTIMATE BOOT CD to BOOT and REPAIR WINDOWS.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
I once thought I was wrong but it turned out I was mistaken
Bob,
Port 139 is used for file and printer sharing. If you dont need it, remove file and printer sharing
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poster is using 3rd party firewall! zonealarm
Fallen Heroes Song ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RfXBB0BRHY
Going with the Flow ,but the water is low and the rocks are big
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RfXBB0BRHY
Going with the Flow ,but the water is low and the rocks are big
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..and svchost needs access, cos it controls some aspects of networking. Mine maintains a UDP connection with my ISP, it listens on 135 [TCP], does DNS requests, FTP, handles shared access for http....
Last edited by gerbil; Nov 15th, 2008 at 8:50 am.
Deep, deep in the woods, but walking about.
thanxs guys your info was very usefull I will have a look at the problem again thanxs again
will popin in evey day to check things out
will popin in evey day to check things out
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Hi kingy55,
As stated, you are running a 3rd party firewall! What happens to the open port when you do enable Windows firewall??
As stated, you are running a 3rd party firewall! What happens to the open port when you do enable Windows firewall??
BACK-UP.........Try one of the simple solutions first........and BACK-UP......
MAKE YOUR OWN ULTIMATE BOOT CD to BOOT and REPAIR WINDOWS.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
I once thought I was wrong but it turned out I was mistaken
Bob,
MAKE YOUR OWN ULTIMATE BOOT CD to BOOT and REPAIR WINDOWS.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
I once thought I was wrong but it turned out I was mistaken
Bob,
hi bob, well when i turn xp firewall on my port 139 then becomes stealth what i don't understand is why it won't stay on when i boot up or do a warm reboot I have to do it manually oh & I am using IE7 with zonealarm pro firewall. dont surpose there is any sort of software I can download to close all ports & make them stealth thanx for your help
Last edited by kingy55; Nov 16th, 2008 at 10:38 am.
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Originally Posted by kingy55 
dont surpose there is any sort of software I can download to close all ports & make them stealth thanx for your help
you should be able to configure zonealarm to do that ,don't ask me how, because i don't use it !
Fallen Heroes Song ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RfXBB0BRHY
Going with the Flow ,but the water is low and the rocks are big
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RfXBB0BRHY
Going with the Flow ,but the water is low and the rocks are big
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