Stopping firewall alerts caused by Messenger ?

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Richard Finkelstein

Hi,

I disabled Messenger via the Administrative tools and
restarted the system. Upon restart:

1) A request was made from my machine to allow for a
Generic Host process which I permitted.

2) This was followed by a request for Messenger to act as
a server which I permitted.

3) This was followed by a request from a Microsoft server
207.46.228.33:3544 to start a Generic Host process which
I denied

4) The Microsoft server persists in starting up a Generic
Host process. At this point there has been 30 attempts.

5) Messenger requested Internet server access which I
denied.

Configuration:
Windows XP
ZoneAlarm 4.0
Neatgear Router
ADSL connection

Does anyone have any idea about what is happening and how
I might stop this process from continuing? Thanks.

Rich
 
Hi,

If it helps, this is ZoneAlarms log information on the
alerts:

PE,2003/11/04,15:05:02 -6:00 GMT,LiveUpdate Engine COM
Module,64.164.108.204:80,N/A
PE,2003/11/04,15:17:34 -6:00 GMT,Generic Host Process for
Win32 Services,192.168.0.1:520,N/A
PE,2003/11/04,15:17:54 -6:00
GMT,Messenger,192.168.0.2:14702,N/A
FWIN,2003/11/04,15:17:54 -6:00
GMT,207.46.228.33:3544,192.168.0.2:1031,UDP
ACCESS,2003/11/04,15:18:42 -6:00 GMT,Generic Host Process
for Win32 Services was blocked from accepting a
connection from the Internet (207.46.228.33:Port
3544).,N/A,N/A
PE,2003/11/04,15:20:00 -6:00
GMT,Messenger,192.168.0.2:16219,N/A

Rich
 
Richard Finkelstein said:
Hi,

I disabled Messenger via the Administrative tools and
restarted the system. Upon restart:

1) A request was made from my machine to allow for a
Generic Host process which I permitted.

2) This was followed by a request for Messenger to act as
a server which I permitted.

3) This was followed by a request from a Microsoft server
207.46.228.33:3544 to start a Generic Host process which
I denied

4) The Microsoft server persists in starting up a Generic
Host process. At this point there has been 30 attempts.

5) Messenger requested Internet server access which I
denied.

Configuration:
Windows XP
ZoneAlarm 4.0
Neatgear Router
ADSL connection

Does anyone have any idea about what is happening and how
I might stop this process from continuing? Thanks.

Rich
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Were you attached to the internet when the 207.x.x.x request was received?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...hnet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/Teredo.asp
 
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