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Messenger & Firewall
Jonathan, after downloading 9.0a and re-booting a couple
of time, shutting Windows Messenger off and on. All seems well. I appreciate all the help and keep up the great work. This has had me banging my head for a few days trying to figure out what it was and I didn't even think about that. This is the place for answers !!! Thanks. Dean -----Original Message----- Jonathan, thanks for the reply. I will try that and let you know. Thanks again, Dean -----Original Message----- Greetings Dean, These large number of ports being opened are the result of having DirectX 9.0 installed. This bug has been fixed in Direct X9.0a, which you can download he http://www.microsoft.com/windows/dir...ownloads/drx90 .. asp However, note that at least 2 of these ports are added by Messenger when it starts (although having a huge number is the result of the DirectX 9 bug) -- this is function of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) in both the firewall and Messenger. ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Windows MVP, Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com "Dean" wrote in message ... My problem just started about a week ago. Everything was fine, until I went to open up some ports for Ghost Recon. I noticed that it took along time to open the details page. When it did, there was a huge amount of ports forwarded out. I am talking like 50 - 80 ports were forwarded out through the firewall. I did a Norton's virus check, virus check online, a trojan check online and nothing came up. I re-installed messenger 4.7 from the Microsoft site and still nothing. I tried shutting off the firewall, did a couple restart of the PC and then turned it back on. Still does it, the ports when viewing them come up as "msmsgs 10147 UPD" or something along that line. It is various ports, TCP and UDP. The only time that ports are not forwarded through the firewall is when I have messenger shut down (exited out) not signed out. Inother words as long as it doesn't appear in the task tray, I am okay. Any ideas on this, I just bought the PC back in December from Dell. XP Home Edition and have all of the updates except the most recent as I uninstalled that thinking that was the main cause but didn't turn out that why. Thanks inadvance for any help. Dean . . |
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