a quick question

From: Enquiries (Enquiries@globalart4u.com)
Date: 02/28/02


From: "Enquiries" <Enquiries@globalart4u.com>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:32:43 -0000

Dear security-basic members

I am a complete newbie at this and know I have sent several questions and
thank everyone for their replies, I tried almost every reply that I
physically could on my machine to resolve problems and learnt a lot, I do
have a question to ask though am not sure if it politically correct to ask
this group or not but here goes (I don't want to be kicked off as I am
learning a lot here):

Since joining the group I was going to save a lot of the interesting emails
on my hard drive for future reference and also to try out once I get a new
pc, but have discovered that I get a lot of problems with some emails I
receive and my pc (windows 98 SE) just does strange things especially
outlook. What happens is that if I keep the emails overnight or log off and
then log on a few hours later I keep getting fwouts or zonealarm keeps
stopping packets entering or exiting, so I delete the emails then have to
wipe the empty space with pgp before all is correct and my outlook starts
working again and no more pings etc for quite a while, the internet
connection works ok - it is on but refuses to budge ie unable to open
websites etc and I have to reboot, I use three different ISPs as depending
on the time how fast they are, cos it starts doing strange things too ie
like me being unable to open IE5, ftp not working ie unable to connect to my
server to upload or download etc. Now my question is I do use somethign
called analyzer (mentioned in one of the emails) but it refuses to save
anything unless it is very small and just stalls my pc so have to reboot).
I also use scanner and visual zone but how do I detect anything that may be
coming in by emails? I did check a header on one email and it had what I'd
call hieroglyphics in it, but do not keep a log of which emails cause the
trouble as I don't know cos I now just read quickly and delete. Can anyone
help re how to detect strange things coming in? I did do a port scan as
suggested under dos and got the following, though the scanner said that only
port 139 was open. Plus can I also ask what is fwroute then visualzone says
service=laplink? This may seem trivial but I would like to keep some of the
emails which are really interesting so have started to save a few as .txt
now, but how do I find which ones have strange things in them that makes my
pc go...

Active Connections

  Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
  TCP 0.0.0.0:1051 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
  TCP 0.0.0.0:500 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
  TCP 62.64.139.168:137 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
  TCP 62.64.139.168:138 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
  TCP 62.64.139.168:139 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
  UDP 0.0.0.0:500 *:*
  UDP 62.64.139.168:137 *:*
  UDP 62.64.139.168:138 *:*

 Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
  TCP 1051 :0 LISTENING
  TCP 500 0 LISTENING
  TCP :137 :0 LISTENING
  TCP :138 :0 LISTENING
  TCP :nbsession :0 LISTENING
  UDP :sytek *:*
  UDP :nbname *:*
  UDP :nbdatagram *:*



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