RE: Port 5000 and Windows XP

["dos cerveza" <dos_cerveza () mail com>]

Port 5000 TCP is used together with port 1900 UDP for UPnP (universal plug and play). It is open on a default Windows 
XP install.
If you don't use it (and you probably don't) you can easily disable the mentioned ports from listening by opening 
'services.msc' from a run box and stop the folowwing services:
'Universal Plug and Play Device Host' &
'SSDP Discovery Service'. Be sure to set them to 'disabled' or 'manual' to prevent them from starting up on a reboot.
http://www.grc.com has a nice article about this too.

Sincerely
Dos
> I had reason to look at a Windows XP box and discovered port 5000 open
> on 
> it.  Subsequent research has shown that this is normal (albeit stupid).
>
> However, when I connect to port 5000, I get an "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad 
> Request".  Also, fport /ap shows port 5000 open, but will not associate
> an 
> application with it.  Am I overly paranoid or has this box been 
> compromised?
>
> Thanks


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