Re: [fw-wiz] Annoying pop-ups

From: Josh Welch (jwelch@buffalowildwings.com)
Date: 10/29/02 

To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
From: Josh Welch <jwelch@buffalowildwings.com>
Date: Tue Oct 29 09:12:21 2002

Quoting David Hawley <rhino007_us@yahoo.com>:

>
> What is the port(s) that is used to send those annoying pop-ups in
> Windows
> XP? Will the firewalling SW builtin to XP
> stop them, or must one use a personal firewall (I am on a short term
> contract, and the DSL router/firewall is back at
> my home base).
>
> TIA, David
>
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If you are referring to the pop-ups genereated by the Windows messenger service
that have been making the news lately, you want to block 139. I believe XPs
firewall should handle this, it is a simple blocking of one port.
Josh

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