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

[Fred A. Miller]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 6:55 pm, dmc wrote:
> 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?
>
> Switch her over to Linux? ... ;-)

Yes.......you can block those ports in the firewall settings on XP. Also, make 
sure that NETBios is "dead" on the XP box.

Fred

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