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Win XP Firewall and MSBLASTA/POZA

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by stuart_at_oz 2 views

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HI all,

Does the Win XP firewall block port 135 (used by the BLASTA/POZA virus) by default? What other ports does it block?

Also, is it possible to modify the configuration of the firewall?

Stu
(Who has Zone Alarm at home anyway...)

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by mat_salleh

By default, if you enable Win XP firewall then it blocks ALL ports. You have to manually select which port you want to allow incoming traffic. This can be done by configuring the internet firewall setting manually which answers your second question.

by stuart_at_oz

I will have to go home tonight and have a play with the XP firewall I think.

If I have ZA and the XP firewall going at the same time, which one would be the first point of contact? I suspect it would be the XP firewall, but I will experiment and see....

Thanks so far... (I will rate these shortly)

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