[lug] linux firewall, popup windows spam blocking

John Hernandez John.Hernandez at noaa.gov
Tue Jun 24 10:31:29 MDT 2003


On Saturday 21 June 2003 13:39, D. Stimits wrote:
> What I'm wondering is if anyone knows what I can block on my linux
> firewall to block popups from other networks? Are these popups UDP or
> TCP? What port or ports are used? I already have 137:139 blocked, and
> some others. I even have zonealarm firewall on the windows machine
> itself, but it still allowed this popup. I'd like to totally remove this
> remote ability via the linux end, as nothing related to security on
> windows can be trusted.

Here's what MS says about it (including their resolution):

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330904

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