[CS-FSLUG] Net-bios/file-sharing "attack"

[Frank Bax]

At 10:10 PM 10/11/05, Ed Hurst wrote:

>DSL is mucho fast, but all is not paradise. My wife's XP box is pinging
>away on my firewall at ports 136-138. It's not a threat, but it piles up
>fat logs. Anyone know how we can tell her XP box to quit?


Are you sure it's not 137-139?  These are ports related to "Win98 network 
neighborhood", "WinXP my neighbourhood places", or Linux Samba.