-=PCTechTalk=- Re: More Firewall

hey Rick... I don't have any more answers to your questions... but a few
comments that maybe someone else can answer here.  a few comments on your
set up tho, I would tell sygate to ASK when dial up is trying to connect...
go ahead, say I am paranoid... but I've seen some nasty little programs that
will try to overtake your dial up settings and call out to whomever....  I'm
not all that familiar with ME but don't see why COM services need to go out
either, or what SDP services are.... maybe someone else with more ME
experience can shed some light?

Filename: C:\WINNT\system32\NTOSKRNL.EXE  is always attempting to go out
upon connecting with my DSL acct.  I deny it each time, as it doesn't make
sense to me WHY it would need to communicate outside my system.  I run
win2k, and your W32Kernel is the ME or Win9x version of the kernel - which
is the major component of the operating system.  the only thing that I can
think of is that my ISP is tracking log ons or this is something that MS has
instituted for it's updates - which I only do manually by going to the
windows update site.

to investigate more [which I have been wanting to do for a long time now] I
went thru my log [which sygate gives a back trace function], the hops that
ntoskrnl is trying to take go like this -  bellsouth [my isp];  uunet
[houston] x 2 ; uunet backbone x4;  uunetcblk [?]; cable & wireless loopback
[chicago!] x 3; C & W [Elk Grove?]; C & W [no location info] x 2; unety
[chicago] and then the last stop at PowerNet/PowerUser Inc.... man... that's
alot of hops just to get an internet connection!  17 in total.... and I
don't see the point in letting my kernel register these hops...  any advise
from internet gurus???

my other comment is on WinAmp - why does it need to access the net every
time I fire it up to play a song?  music match juke box doesn't do this...
and when I do not allow it to connect to the net, WinAmp shuts down on me...
why is it calling home I wonder???

to further explore the winamp issue, I disconnected my DSL line and started
up WinAmp... it wanted to go out, and this time I said yes - so that it
wouldn't shut down on me... went to options --> preferences --> internet
and unchecked the box to check for new versions of at start up.  now it
doesn't register wanting a net connection when I start it up.  I prefer to
all my updates to all my applications manually...  I've seen too many
systems get hosed by doing auto updates.

~s


----- From: "DH (Rick) Holmes"
>
> Eric...it's Rick, not that it matters.  Thank you for your directions.
>    I must have a different version to you because,  in
> Tools/Applications/Advanced there is a box, (already checked) with
> 'Allow ICMP traffic'.  Because of this I presume that no specific rule
> is needed.  Please confirm.
>
> What I have now is:- ( With my comments in brackets)
>
> DialUp Networking App  ...........Allow      This I think is how ir
> should be.
> Distributed COM services..........Ask        Could I block this?
> Microsoft AutoUpdate.................Ask         I usually deny this but
> occasionally say OK.
> Netscp.exe.................................Allow       OK I should thionk
> Sky Media 200D..........................Allow        Yes, needed
> SDP Service on Windows Millenium.......Ask       Don't know.
> W32Kernel core component..........Block               Should be OK??
> because ICMP is enabled
> WinAmp3............................. Ask                 I can't see
> that this is needed now.  Should I block it?
>
> If you don't mind just letting me know if the options chosen above are
> right, I would be much obliged, thanks.
>

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