Re: ISP keeps connecting to my port 445

From: Khaled (me_at_localhost.home)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: 27 Sep 2004 22:25:50 GMT

"Madhur Ahuja" <ef@df.com> wrote in
news:2rqur7F1dfacvU2@uni-berlin.de:

> Hello
>
> Whenever I connect to my ISP *Reliance India Ltd.*, I keep
> getting incoming connections for port 445 from one of their
> computers, which my firewall obviously drops. I need to
> know whether I should do something about this or this is
> normal. I think port 445 is used by Netbios, are they
> looking my computer for the shared folers?. Should I drop
> those connections or just deny them.
>
> --
> Madhur Ahuja [madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com]
>
> Homepage
> http://madhur.netfirms.com
>
>

I urge you to visit the grc site http://www.grc.com and run
the ShieldsUp test. It will tell you the status of your
ports. Move your mouse to port 445 (or any other) and click,
it will give you an explanation of the ports' importance.

For copyright reasons I cannot paste this report, but go see
for yourelf.

The question is, what realistic action can be taken.. any
suggestions ???

btw: I traced my prober and it was my isp, I sent them e-
mail, and yes, ofcourse, no response.. Better luck to others
who may try !!

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