[Firewall XP] Creates automatically a rule "msmsgs" openin..

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"Paolo P." <none.nessunaccount@broken.invalid.com> wrote in
news:%u2oc.173203$hc5.7532308@news3.tin.it:

>
> I discovered that XP firewall opens automatically one TCP port and one
> UDP port into a rule named "msmsgs xxxx" (xxxx is for port number).

First of all, the XP FW is a stateful FW. That means that if something/a
program on the machine is not soliciting for traffic on the port, then the
port is not open.

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] #appliesto

I suggest you do a port scan on the ports in questions to see if in factthe
port is open.

>
> I tried to deactivate and delete the rule, but at each internet
> connection it rebuild "msmsgs rule" automatically opening again two
> ports.
>
> I made some search and it means that "msmsgs" is related to MSN
> Messanger. I fully unistalled Msn time a go, and ino more i don't use
> any MSN service like Passport ecc.

Yeah, goto Control Panel/Add Remove Programs - Add/Remove Windows
Components and uninstall MSN. It's as simple as that.

>
> Have you idea how to close these ports using XP firewall, or how to
> disable the service that creates these rule?

If you need to close ports period, then use IPsec that's there on the O/S
to close a port. You can use it to supplement XP's FW in this area.

http://www.petri.co.il/block_ping_ [...] _ipsec.htm
http://www.analogx.com/contents/articles/ipsec.htm

Duane