["michael butler" <butler615@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/17/06, Andrew Hood  wrote:

Please learn not to top post. And not include email addresses. See how
I've fixed it.

michael butler wrote:
> On 2/17/06, *Andrew Hood*
> wrote:
>
>     michael butler wrote:
>     > here is the results of a 15 second scan...
>     >
>     > On 2/17/06, *LEGO* >     wrote:
>     >
>
>     Looks like some software on 192.168.2.35 <http://192.168.2.35> is
>     polling 192.168.2.1 <http://192.168.2.1> for
>     statistics (web browser looking at router stats maybe) and multicasting
>     something that looks like UPnP to 239.255.255.250
>     <http://239.255.255.250> port 1900
>
>     How about you turn off UPnP unless you ***really*** need it.
>
> what is UPnP? and since I have no idea what it is I guess I don't need
> it.  ha

http://www.upnp.org/ - Welcome to the UPnP™ Forum!

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-059.mspx -
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) allows computers to discover and use ...


--
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
               -- Dr. Who

 

 

Sorry. I hope I'm doing what you asked now. My first mailing list too. :) But I went to MS update and it seems I have all security updates installed. Would you advise setting a filter? or is this normal activity that you with windows machines experiance?

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