Open Ports in Firewall

[Guest]

Everytime I start my DSL connection and then go look at the firewall properties, I find two open ports. They will look something like "msmgs 10251 UDP" and msmgs 7058 TCP". If I sign off my DSL connection and delete them and then sign back on, the two open ports are recreated but with a different port number. Is this some king of virus or Trojan?

 

[Sooner Al]

Those are the ports Windows Messenger is using.

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Everytime I start my DSL connection and then go look at the firewall properties, I find two open

ports. They will look something like "msmgs 10251 UDP" and msmgs 7058 TCP". If I sign off my DSL
connection and delete them and then sign back on, the two open ports are recreated but with a
different port number. Is this some king of virus or Trojan?

 

[HistoryFan]

I had a similar problem, except I wasn't using Windows Messenger. In
fact, I had it turned off completely. But I couldn't figure out why the
heck msmgs was twice listed as an open source within the XP Firewall. Then
I realized that my Norton AV was set up to scan Windows Messenger. I turned
that feature off, and now those two entries are gone.

Everytime I start my DSL connection and then go look at the firewall

properties, I find two open ports. They will look something like "msmgs
10251 UDP" and msmgs 7058 TCP". If I sign off my DSL connection and delete
them and then sign back on, the two open ports are recreated but with a
different port number. Is this some king of virus or Trojan?