Re: Zone alarm pro port 5000 cant block???

From: Jess (jess_727_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/16/03 

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:31:23 +0800

You can use "UnPlug n Pray" by Steve Gibson (www.grc.com). This little
program totally disables UPNP and closes port 5000.

Get it here: https://grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm

Jess

"sean" <fatpenguin2003@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hnprjvoqno7lkub7skqco4b87t42l0f4fl@4ax.com...
>
>
> heres the prob i have windows xp sp1 using zone alarm pro trial to
> see if i want to buy it but have been to symantec to do securtiy check
> and found that port 5000(UPNP) is always open posing a very big
> security risk and i have told the firewal to hide all unused ports
> and block 5000 but still i get the same result.
>
>
> how do i solve this problem?
>
> I only use a third party firewall as the xp firewall will block all
> file transfers i try to make in windows messenger which seems dumb as
> they are both part of the same system.
>
>

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