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
kingy55 44 Newbie Poster
Bob_180_Bob 41 Posting Virtuoso
Hi,
Try downloading and using a third party firewall, they are better than windows anyway.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Port 139 is used for file and printer sharing. If you dont need it, remove file and printer sharing
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
poster is using 3rd party firewall! zonealarm
gerbil 216 Industrious Poster
..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....
kingy55 44 Newbie Poster
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;)
Bob_180_Bob 41 Posting Virtuoso
Hi kingy55,
As stated, you are running a 3rd party firewall! What happens to the open port when you do enable Windows firewall??
kingy55 44 Newbie Poster
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
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
dont surpose there is any sort of software I can download to close all ports & make them stealth thanx for your help
yeah, its called a firewall .lol
you should be able to configure zonealarm to do that ,don't ask me how, because i don't use it !
kingy55 44 Newbie Poster
thanxs guys get it now zonealarm turns off win xp wirewall something to do with sp2 good old microsoft
gerbil 216 Industrious Poster
Yes, it does do that.. just to save the double checking of "two" firewalls. Comodo does not, so you do it yourself.
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