Zaspersky

[Billy]

Hvae just installed the Zaspersky trial for Internet Security, that is now
Vista ready. Going OK but unsure if I should have allows the 28
applications to access web. When I saw the list I had little idea what half
of them were. E.g should windows mail be going through port 433?

Can anyone tell me what the following are?:

svchost.exe
alg.exe
DWWIN.EXE
mstsc.exe
mobsync.exe
wuadt.exe
rundll32.exe
spooler.exe
ftp.exe
PING.EXE
TRACERT.EXE
nslookup.exe
finger.exe
userini.exe
lsass.exe
system

I have missed out the omes I do know

Should I be worried?

Thanks

 

[Billy]

Got rid of this as it was horribkly complcated and took forever to do
anything!

back to free AVG and Vista bulit in.

Billy

 

[Rock]

Hvae just installed the Zaspersky trial for Internet Security, that is now
Vista ready. Going OK but unsure if I should have allows the 28
applications to access web. When I saw the list I had little idea what
half of them were. E.g should windows mail be going through port 433?

Can anyone tell me what the following are?:

svchost.exe
alg.exe
DWWIN.EXE
mstsc.exe
mobsync.exe
wuadt.exe
rundll32.exe
spooler.exe
ftp.exe
PING.EXE
TRACERT.EXE
nslookup.exe
finger.exe
userini.exe
lsass.exe
system

The information you want is easily obtainable for yourself using Google and
other research sites such as:

www.google.com
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm
http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/services.html.

 

[B. Nice]

Hvae just installed the Zaspersky trial for Internet Security, that is now
Vista ready. Going OK but unsure if I should have allows the 28
applications to access web.

So why do you install security meassures you don't understand how to
configure correctly? That does'nt provide much security. Instead make
sure to run a good on-access virus-scanner and combine it with common
sense.

When I saw the list I had little idea what half
of them were.

Very understandable. But the queston is: Should you?

E.g should windows mail be going through port 433?

Can anyone tell me what the following are?:

svchost.exe
alg.exe
DWWIN.EXE
mstsc.exe
mobsync.exe
wuadt.exe
rundll32.exe
spooler.exe
ftp.exe
PING.EXE
TRACERT.EXE
nslookup.exe
finger.exe
userini.exe
lsass.exe
system

I have missed out the omes I do know

Should I be worried?

Yes. But not for the reasons you think ;-)

Instead of worrying too much about what applications access the web,
instead make sure you run only programs you trust (and understand)
from normally reliable sources and keep them (and your windows!)
updated.

And make sure that you are running only software of decent quality and
when browsing the web avoid stuff like ActiveX (can be avoided by not
using Internet Explorer for daily browsing for example) and scripting
from web sites you don't trust.

/B. Nice

 

[Donald McDaniel]

Hvae just installed the Zaspersky trial for Internet Security,

The actual name of the program is "Kaspersky Internet Security".

that is now Vista ready. Going OK but unsure if I should have allows the 28
applications to access web. When I saw the list I had little idea what half
of them were. E.g should windows mail be going through port 433?

The normal POP ports are as follows:
Incoming mail: 25
Outgoing mail: 110

You can find the ports your account uses by following this procedure:
1) Click on "Tools" in the MenuBar.
2) Choose "Accounts"
3) Select your ISP mail account in the left pane.
4) Click on "Properties"
5) Click on the "Advanced" tab.
6) The normal ports for your account types will be pre-entered.
7) If your Incoming server uses a Secure Connection, the port used will be
still be 995 in Windows Mail. If your outgoing server uses a secure
connection, it will still be port 25 in Windows Mail (unless your ISP uses
different ports, of course. Speak to their support about this.)

Port 443 might be for an IMAP server. Don't know, since I don't have an IMAP
account.

Ask your ISP what kind of email account you have. If it's POP, the ports
should be what I have written above (unless your ISP uses different ports for
its POP mail. IF they do, simply change them to the ISP's ports in Windows
Mail).

Can anyone tell me what the following are?:

svchost.exe

This is a general-purpose networking utility. Many normal programs use this,
as does Vista itself.

alg.exe

Don't know what this is used for.

DWWIN.EXE

This is Doctor Watson, the Vista error debugger.

mstsc.exe
mobsync.exe

wuadt.exe

This is used by Automatic Updates.

rundll32.exe

This is used by the OS to run DLLs as if they were programs.

spooler.exe

This is used by your printer to control your printer output.

ftp.exe

This is the FTP client app.

PING.EXE

This is a network utility to "ping" various IP addresses.
Used to test how long it takes for a "ping" to travel to a specified network
address and back.

TRACERT.EXE

This is used to trace the network path of network operations.

nslookup.exe

finger.exe

Not sure about this one, but I think it is used like "touch" in Unix/Linux to
batch-change various file attributes.

userini.exe

From its file name, it sounds like it is used to ascertian the initiation
settings for user accounts.

lsass.exe
system

I have missed out the omes I do know

Should I be worried?

I see no reason to worry. However, I prefer NOD32 Antivirus. Kaspersky scans
very slowly, and takes up much Windows resources.

Since I have a local network address rather than a global one, and as such, am
invisible to any machine but my brother's (I'm behind a NAT Router which only
enables my MAC address and my brothers), I see no need for any firewall
protection other than Vista's built-in firewall software, which is more than
capable of protecting me from network viruses and other attacks.