XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
   From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , VanguardLH    
   writes:   
   []   
   >"Consider adding a rule on your router or firewall to block incoming SMB   
   >traffic on port 445"   
   >   
   >Who has a router (seperately or in a modem/router combo from their ISP)   
   >that doesn't have a simple stateful firewall that blocks unsolicited   
   >inbound connect attempts?   
      
   I don't know if my modem/router combo has this - it probably does - but   
   I thought I'd add such a rule to my firewall anyway. But my firewall   
   doesn't seem to list "SMB" among the protocols I can select - it offers   
   the following choice:   
           Any   
           TCP   
           UDP   
           UCP and UDP   
           ICMP   
           Other   
   Only the TCP and UDP ones let me specify a port. Other produces a box,   
   but I get an error beep if I try to type SMB into it - I _think_ I can   
   only type numbers into that.   
   (Firewall is KPF 2.1.5 FWIW.)   
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