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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Jump to PostHi,
Try downloading and using a third party firewall, they are better than windows anyway.
Jump to PostPort 139 is used for file and printer sharing. If you dont need it, remove file and printer sharing
Jump to Postposter is using 3rd party firewall! zonealarm
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