Re: Firewall warnings about services.exe

From: Arthur T. (arthur_at_munged.invalid)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:45:05 -0500

In Message-ID:<o1b0c.22130$aZ3.11499@fed1read04>,
Kerodo <kerodokenny@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Arthur T. wrote: <much snipped>
>> For the last few weeks, I've been getting occasional warning
>> messages from Outpost that services.exe is requesting an incoming
>> UDP connection with various IP addresses on various port numbers.
>> Among the port numbers are 5488, 16162, 31552, 11036.
>>
>> Once, I tried totally blocking services.exe, but then I
>> couldn't browse the internet.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions of how I should proceed?
>
>You should be able, in your firewall, to block incoming traffic to
>Services.Exe while allowing outgoing traffic. Then things should work ok.

     This also causes "could not connect to remote server" when
attempting to browse the web. (I'm having problems finding out
just what services.exe is supposed to do and what ports it should
validly be using.) 

-- 
Arthur T.  - If address is munged, reply to:  ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

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