Help, anyone.

[tw]

Originally posted by LUVBUGZ
So, tw, is this a nice way of telling me to stop wasting space in the Cellar and ask my stupid questions in another forum, hence waste space elsewhere?

No reason to deny either board the amusement of your questions.

Windows programs came/come with some ports open that really should not have been. Two easy ways to get malware into your system is via NETBIOS and port 135. Both should be closed.

What ports are open? Shields Up at www.grc.com is a excellent report. But so often used that best to access it at weird times. Also in his freeware are some programs to close those 'should not be open' ports. Noshare.exe, Shotthemessenger and DCOMbob are three programs that would make the computer more malware resistant by closing those ports for you.