Re: ISP keeps connecting to my port 445
From: Maxime Ducharme (mducharme_at_cybergeneration.com)
Date: 09/28/04
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:07:45 GMT
Hello
Some ISPs test their customer's ports to look for
infected hosts, so they can "see" who is infected
and prevent you from connecting.
When you call to know "why is my internet not working",
they can ask to dis-infect the computer, so they can reduce
the load on their network caused by infected hosts scanning
for other hosts.
Best solution : ask your ISP.
Have a nice day
Maxime Ducharme
Programmeur / Spécialiste en sécurité réseau
"Madhur Ahuja" <ef@df.com> wrote in message
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.
>
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> Madhur Ahuja [madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com]
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