Re: Annoying pop-ups

[Josh Welch <jwelch () buffalowildwings com>]

Quoting David Hawley <rhino007_us () yahoo com>:

> What is the port(s) that is used to send those annoying pop-ups in
> Windows 
> XP?  Will the firewalling SW builtin to XP
> stop them, or must one use a personal firewall (I am on a short term 
> contract, and the DSL router/firewall is back at
> my home base).
>
> TIA, David
>
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If you are referring to the pop-ups genereated by the Windows messenger service
that have been making the news lately, you want to block 139. I believe XPs
firewall should handle this, it is a simple blocking of one port.
Josh
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