Re: question about firewall

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 01/09/04


Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:33:30 -0500

How do you know it was Microsoft headquarters?

The other port is probably the port that would have told you exactly what
the purpose was... that and the IP address and/or host name. I'm guessing
your computer probably initiated the connection for some uninteresting
reason. Give more information and perhaps we can take a better guess.

"seedy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0a3b01c3d5b9$cb34b140$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Tonight, my firewall blocked attempts to access the
> following ports - 2949, 2950 and 2951. When I tracked
> it, it came from a computer at the Microsoft
> headquarters. Is this something that I should allow
> access to? Thanks



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