DaniWeb Forum Index > Hardware and Software > Microsoft Windows > Windows NT / 2000 / XP

Windows NT / 2000 / XP RSS

Unneeded outgoing connections - Tiny Personal Firewall issue

•

Join Date: May 2002

Posts: 3

Reputation: Free4all_ftp is an unknown quantity at this point

Solved Threads: 0

Free4all_ftp Free4all_ftp is offline

Offline

Newbie Poster

Unneeded outgoing connections - Tiny Personal Firewall issue

Jun 1st, 2002

I use Tiny Personal Firewall. It is really easy to use, and it works fine for what i do. There are some programs that request outgoing/incoming connections. I'm not sure if i should let these progs communicate or not. If someone could let me know what these progs do, i would appreciate it. Are they safe, or are they identifying me? The progs are:svchost.exe,rundll32.exe,mstsc.exe,jview.exe,msiexec.exe. and then there is the tcip kernal driver. Any help would be appreciated The OS is XP Pro, btw.That's y i posted here.
???

This is for fun.....right?

•

Join Date: Mar 2004

Posts: 219

Reputation: BountyX is an unknown quantity at this point

Solved Threads: 8

BountyX

Offline

Code Guru

Re: Unneeded outgoing connections.

Mar 27th, 2004

•

Originally Posted by Free4all_ftp

I use Tiny Personal Firewall. It is really easy to use, and it works fine for what i do. There are some programs that request outgoing/incoming connections. I'm not sure if i should let these progs communicate or not. If someone could let me know what these progs do, i would appreciate it. Are they safe, or are they identifying me? The progs are:svchost.exe,rundll32.exe,mstsc.exe,jview.exe,msiexec.exe. and then there is the tcip kernal driver. Any help would be appreciated The OS is XP Pro, btw.That's y i posted here.
???

svchost.exe,rundll32.exe,mstsc.exe,jview.exe,msiexec.exe those are all ok,

heres a rule of thumb for firewalls most of the time u can allow outgoing, rarely should you allow incoming.

A Hacker's Mind:
"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes..." - J.D.Salinger