Configuration Question(s)

Been having problem(s) with XP freezing-up (a bit) - worse though is that it seems to get "stuck" in "Stand-By" mode sometimes (causing me to force hard shut-downs ("Disruptive"). Something weird about that is; when I have to do this (because NOTHING else that I know to do will allow the PC to Restart/Shut-Down or continue), the power button shuts down the PC immediately, as opposed to the normal "4 second" thing.

I made some changes last week, and seemed to "fix" things, but now it's back. The only thing which I had really added lately was to uninstall (the "All in One" - click) AWC2, & installed Advanced SystemCare 3 ("Final") - which I have now also UN-installed.

In the process (last week), I (for better or worse), may have changed some settings in CP>Network Connections>Local Area Connection>General (tab)>Properties>Configure (button)>Advanced (tab).

Is it possible for anyone to tell me how the following list should be set-up (?):

Link Down Power Saving (I have "enabled")
Link Speed/Duplex Mode ("Auto Negotiate")
Network Address ("None Present")
Optimal Performance ("Enabled")
Receive Buffer Size ("64K bytes")
Wake-on-Lan After Shutdown ("Disabled")
Wake-up ARP/PING ("Enabled")
Wake-up on Link Change ("Disabled")
Wake-up using APM Mode ("Disabled")

I have a feeling "PING" should be disabled (no?), but how do the others look please?

Thanks in advance ...

 

This would now appear to be a serious (s*E*C*U*R*I*T*Y) problem for me (??).

When I look into: CP>Network Connections>Local Area Connection>General (tab)>Properties>Advanced (tab)>("Windows Firewall" - though I am using a 3rd-party FW)>Settings>Advanced (tab)>ICMP Settings (button), it is now set to "Allow" IN-coming PING requests - and I can NOT CLEAR the checkbox!!! This is generally not good - correct please?? It says that it is "automatically allowed if TCP Port 445 is enabled".

But when I go in from Local Area Connections>Settings (button) , this box (ICMP -Allow incoming requests) IS cleared??

Help ... please ...

 

~***UPDATED***~

I got the port 445 closed, and that cleared the box in ICMP "Allow Incoming Requests" - but I have no idea if this is right, or if any of these other settings I have are "correct". There are "Change Scope" buttons, and "subnet" ... some (most) of which I understand - but not really so much in conjunction with everything else (in other words - how all these different settings work together, and off of each other).

I'm frantically petrified that one wrong or errant box having been ticked or not ticked may have left me open to serious trouble! I so do NOT understand why MS didn't put in "Restore Default" buttons on some of this security stuff ... that simply boggles my mind!!!

 

Well, here I am again ... Glenn Again ... wunderin' if this will be considered a "bump" - or whether or not I should start a(nother ... yet another) new post (??).

I'm "back" now due to the (my) shenanigans which originally prompted me to begin this thread.

I have now "blocked" myself out out being able to download (a program from here at MG's). Getting a 404 Error ... something about "Port 80" - and I'm certain that it's due to my SUPER-Paranoid settings (as plodr politely "mentioned" last eve.) in my Network Connections (XP/Firefox).

I've stumbled around in there (in here ... my Network Connections), and am uncertain as to which "button(S)" to push ... will it be the one that opens me to MAL-Monsters? Or will it be the one that blocks me from the internet altogether?

Any ideas gang? Or should I just suck it up, and let XP's Firewall protect me - as StudioT here assured me it would (simply because it HAD - all along ... and he surely knows a HECK of a lot more `bout this stuff that I ever will)...

 

Thanks, however, I need to apologize. I get myself in such a tizzy sometimes (usually) that I forget to type all the details.

I uninstalled that (3rd party) FW due to some difficulty that I had with it after it having run pretty much error-free (AND blocking my OUT-bound stuff) for the month or two that I had it running.

I am simply using XP's FW - but not happy (NOT AT ALL), that it doesn't seem to block OUT-BOUND data/info, etc.

 

Mr Trent,

with all due respect, you seem to 'go back' to dated posts of mine, rather selectively, and find whatever it is that you can, in attempts to make me "go away".

In the future, if you wish to 'go back', I would strongly suggest, that perhaps you should read my posts (the threads), rather than simply skimming them, or merely glancing at the title, so as to find "something" to try and pick me apart.

I will find my answers - with or without your effort - thanks just the same - and have a nice ... day.

 

Well my good man, the point, as I mentioned a few posts back, is 'downloading' (of anything) ... downloading is the problem - to include a "simple FW" that would 'give me both' ... and it is well beyond my realm of understanding as to why MS would not include that protection in their vaunted XP OS in the first place - but they didn't.

And now that you have 'fiddled' with plodr's quote/post (by highlighting and underlining), and as I managed to correct one "issue" (last night), however causing another now, in the process, the point is better taken.

Though if I ever (and WHEN-ever) believe my PC to be vulnerable - at all - whatsoever, I will be doing everything I can, to remedy the problem(s) - feeble though my attempts may be.

Thanks.