UNP&P (OT)

David Skolnik davidskolnik@optonline.net
Mon, 02 Jun 2003 10:17:00 -0400


Richard -
Where is access to this feature found?

David Skolnik




At 12:07 AM 5/30/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi folks.
>
>Been experiencing some unexplainable slow downs on my hot shot nearly
>new pentium 4 machine the past couple weeks, and I started getting a bit
>suspicious as to what was going on. So I downloaded an anti Adware
>program, found a couple little Ad spyware files... no biggie... also
>downloaded an anti trojan program... it found no trojans but found port
>5000 open... a known trojan port. Seems like the only way to close this
>port is to turn off the Universal Plug and Play feature on XP... and as
>I didnt need this feature... and dont want it anyways... I downloaded a
>program to disable the thing and wooooaaahh!! Suddenly all the speed was
>back in my machine. Its down right cooking with speed now.
>
>I dont really know what was up... but something was utilizing that port
>and it was taking up a lot of my CPU's attention. I think I gotta
>recommend turning off this << Feature >> of XP.
>
>Cheers
>
>RicB
>
>--
>Richard Brekne
>RPT, N.P.T.F.
>UiB, Bergen, Norway
>mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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>
>
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