Re: heavy traffic on port 1025

From: Star Fleet Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NO-SPAM)_at_(FORGET-SPAM)hotmail.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 01:12:09 -0400

Question - if task scheduler is using port 1025, then why are you
telling everyone to block all the other ports 1024 and 1026-65535?
They may have other important applications running on those ports and
what you've told them just broke them - and yes, most people on these
groups are not "tech savey" so next there will be a post "My
such-n-such all of sudden quit working" - be mindful of your audience
when suggesting. 

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Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service
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"Erwin Michiels" <ErwinMichiels@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:E2B7FF8B-0FC3-47FF-A25F-03C32B19F0A1@microsoft.com...
> Many people seem to have noticed heavy traffic on port 1025. This
traffic is caused by the task scheduler service hosted by svchost.exe.
This service opens port 1025 by default. There are two ways to block
this traffic:
>
> 1) disable task scheduler service and reboot; be aware it is
possible that prefetch, system restore and bootvis won't work properly
anymore;
>
> 2) deny inbound traffic for svchost.exe using TCP on the local ports
1024-65535; you can use a firewall like Agnitum Outpost 1.0 (freeware)
to configure your system this way (
http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html ).
>
> To exploit task scheduler listening on port 1025, you can even
download a tool from the net: remoxec from
http://www.securityfriday.com/tools/Remoxec.html . This explains
probably the amount of scans of port 1025.

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