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Old April 7th 03, 04:27 AM
Dean
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Default 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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