port 1025

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How do I close port 1025 - even mcafee wont srealth it -
XP pro, aol broadband.

Cheers
 
Pierre said:
How do I close port 1025 - even mcafee wont srealth it -
XP pro, aol broadband.

Cheers
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What bothers me is that MS introduces a potential security flaw with
this services (Task Scheduler) running with an open port (1025) on the
Home Edition version of XP. No one running XP Home needs remote
connections to the task scheduler. Why did they do this? This
ability isn't required for a peer-peer configuration of a home
network. This seems to have the same posible disaster as the
Messenger service. Can one the MVPs get a message to MS to turn off
the open port feature of Task Scheduler in a future patch?

-k
 
Hi Pierre,

In any case, you should have the "Internet Connection Firewall" enabled.
This will prevent connections from machines via the network. Nevertheless,
services running on the machine will continue to listen on the configured
port. In this case, you have a service that has bound to an ephemeral port
(>1024). If you would like to identify the process associated with that
listener, you can utilized "netstat -o" and the "Task Manager" to identify
the associated PID.

Brian Schafer, MCSE, MCSA, CISSP, Security+
(e-mail address removed)

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


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