Re: Firewall settings

From: Ramesh (ramborums_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:57:19 +0530

Hi Kenrick,

I did disable the SSDP Discovery service but NDIS User broadcast message
still appears, though some of the other messages seem to have disappeared.

Anything else I can do?

Thanks
Ramesh

"Kenrick Fu" <kenrickfu@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eO24TkUKEHA.3704@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> You can disable the SSDP Discovery Service using the Services Managment
> Console from Administrative Tools in order to get rid of this warning.
>
> --
> Kenrick Fu
> MS MVP (IE/OE)
>
>
> "Ramesh" <ramborums@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:OsjkmPUKEHA.2380@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > HI,
> >
> > I am configuring a personal firewall to control which files can access
the
> > internet. Is it safe to give full access to the following files
> > NDIS Usermode I/O drver (ndisuio.sys)
> > Generic host process (svchost.exe)
> > NT Kernel and system (ntoskrnl.exe)
> > LSA Shell (lsass.exe)
> >
> > These keep throwing up alerts like ndisuio.sys has received broadcast
> > packet
> > from remote machine.
> >
> > svchost is trying to broadcast to 239.255.255.250 etc.
> >
> > Is it ok to disable their access to the internet?
> >
> > Could somebody please clarify please?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ramesh
> >
> >
>
>

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    ... You can disable the SSDP Discovery Service using the Services Managment ... "Ramesh" wrote in message ... > These keep throwing up alerts like ndisuio.sys has received broadcast ... > Is it ok to disable their access to the internet? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)