Win XP Internet Firewall - msmsgs TCP and msmsgs UDP automatically appears

[Yuri]

PLease help me to solve this problem.

I am running Windows XP professional with enabled Win XP
firewal over the DSL connection (on LAN card). However,
each time there appear automatically 'msmsgs' service with
different TCP and UDP, even after I uncheck them or
delete. I do not want these services and these open ports
on my firewall. As I understand, this 'msmsgs' relates to
Ms Exchage Server (maybe I am wrong?), but I do not run
this Server, or any other one.

How I can disable this automatic appearance of 'msmsgs'
TCP and UDP open ports in my Win XP firewall?

Thank you in advance.

Yuri

 

[Ben]

-----Original Message-----
PLease help me to solve this problem.

I am running Windows XP professional with enabled Win XP
firewal over the DSL connection (on LAN card). However,
each time there appear automatically 'msmsgs' service with
different TCP and UDP, even after I uncheck them or
delete. I do not want these services and these open ports
on my firewall. As I understand, this 'msmsgs' relates to
Ms Exchage Server (maybe I am wrong?), but I do not run
this Server, or any other one.

How I can disable this automatic appearance of 'msmsgs'
TCP and UDP open ports in my Win XP firewall?

Thank you in advance.

Yuri
.
I saw this before and I believe the Microsoft Instant

messenger creates these automatically. If you want to be
sure that some other program isn't creating ports it will
help to download and run Adaware 6 from www.lavasoftusa.com
(it's free for personal use). Let it auto scan and delete
the items it finds. They will be hidden stuff you picked
up while surfing. I have used it on about a dozen
computers to help clean off secretly running programs with
no problems whatsoever. Once install - do the web update
before scanning.