Re: The TCP... settings block my port scanners(kazaa,warez,etc)
From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 02/10/05
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:55:28 -0500
DangerousD, I have to wonder about the real reasons why you are running port
scanners and p2p software. Have you tried calling Microsoft support and
asking them why your hacking tools won't work and you can't download free
music and movies anymore? Microsoft offers free tech support for virus
problems, so I guess that would also have to include help with problems
writing and spreading viruses.
XP SP2 has a lot of security improvements that are highly recommended, but
it is a significant change to your system. I assume you had disabled the
ICF / Windows firewall installed by XP SP2... I believe SP2 will enable ICF
by default on a home computer. There's also a firewall log I believe called
pfirewall.log somewhere in the windows directory that you could have checked
to confirm or deny whether the Windows firewall was an issue.
There is also a new feature in XP SP2 that if I understand correctly limits
the number of concurrent outbound connections to 10. I wonder if this is
what you are referring to? I don't believe there is an official method or
setting that lets you disable this. There are unofficial hacks out there
that involve replacing or editing one or more executable files and are
unsupported by Microsoft.
XP SP2 does reportedly break or at least cause problems for some scanners
like nmap. This issue and the fixes for it have been well documented in
www.google.com and at the nmap web site. You might have to search the web
site or discussion forum for whatever programs are troubled.
"DangerousD" <DangerousD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A5B3ED72-B81F-4767-A21C-B40034284BAD@microsoft.com...
> I have been using various p2p softwares since long now, only for
legitimate
> needs. some times you catch hold of such files and old docs which is
> occationally difficult to find easily otherwise. P2P helps in such cases.
>
> Any ways, I updated my windows xp with some critical security updates and
> service packs and thereafter all of the softwares stopped working. I tried
> out a lot of stuff but no good. i thought that the installation was
curropted
> by the updates so i
> 1. reinstalled - waste of time
> 2. uninstalled and reinstalled - again waste of time
> 3. uninstalled, deleted related files which were left back and then
> reinstalled again - again more wastage of valuable time.
> 4. uninstalled the security updates and then reinstalled - no use
> 5. i formated the entire drive on which XP is installed, reinstalled
entire
> XP alongwith service packs 1 & 2. NO USE. infact after this my antivirus
and
> firewall (Zone alarm) also stopped working.
> 6. now i have formatted the entire drive again and installed the origial
> system again.... guess what.... IT STILL DOES NOT WORK.
>
> after a lot of research and developement i did find out a reason. there is
> this security setting in windows xp with the name TCP.... something, i
dont
> remember the entire name. This setting is to protect you against malicious
> attacks and hijack attempts. Any program on your computer which makes more
> than a prescribed number of unsuccessfull attempts to connect to ports on
the
> interet, its bandwidth is blocked and reduced to such a small amount that
> almost neglegible amout of data transfer takes place. after so much more
> wasting of time i am still not able to find the place from where the
> parameteres of this setting can be changed.
>
> Now i have only two questions???
> 1. where is this option which limits bandwidth???
> 2. when earlier, ie. before the unfortunate day when i updated my win XP,
> how cum my portscanners were working and now they are not????
>
> the reason why i am sure that this is why kazaa and warez dont work is
> because when i install them for the first couple of hours they work
> absolutely finebut there after they just dont work at all. which shows
that
> while the limit of unsuccessful attempts is not reached they work and once
it
> is reached they stop.
>
> can someone pleeeeeaaaase help...
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