Re: RE: [Security] Fun with Windows all over again

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From: Aron Roberts (aron_at_socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 15 2003 - 11:56:35 PDT

At 11:17 -0700 2003-09-15, Erik Klavon wrote:
>I recently enabled the firewall in XP on a relative's computer. I
>found many open ports for the Windows Messenger service. I disabled
>all of them and upon rebooting the computer found that they had all
>been re-enabled.
>...
>
>Needless to say, after this encounter I don't feel I can trust the XP
>firewall. Hopefully Microsoft will make/has already made plans to
>change this behavior.

   FWIW, the following Microsoft "how to" page for home users states
that "you must upgrade to [Windows XP] Service Pack 1 to fully block
messenger spam" using the integral Internet Connection Firewall:

   "Stopping Advertisements with Messenger Service Titles"
   http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/communicate/stopspam.asp

   This Microsoft Knowledge Base article discusses changes in ICF's
behavior that began with Service Pack 1:

   "ICF in Windows XP SP1 and Windows Server 2003 Blocks Unsolicited
   Inbound Unicast, Multicast, and Broadcast Traffic"
   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;329928

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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