Shields up results

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by dalkiel, Sep 9, 2009.

  1. dalkiel

    dalkiel Private First Class

    Got these results from shields up. The bolded section concerns me.


    Attempting connection to your computer. . .
    Shields UP! is now attempting to contact the Hidden Internet Server within your PC. It is likely that no one has told you that your own personal computer may now be functioning as an Internet Server with neither your knowledge nor your permission. And that it may be serving up all or many of your personal files for reading, writing, modification and even deletion by anyone, anywhere, on the Internet!

    Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
    One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.

    Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
    All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Those are print outs you see when running the File Sharing test. If you have enabled file sharing or various other features, the bold print is what you will see. I see the same thing on my computers. This is not a problem. If however you are running P2P or Torrent downloading programs that can act as servers then they are potential problems.
     
  3. dalkiel

    dalkiel Private First Class

    Thanks Chas

    I run Azureus occasionally. What are the potential problems i could face and can I negate them?

    Thanks in advance
     
  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Potential problems are any number of malware problems to identity theft/financial fraud. The safest thing is not to use them. If you still want to use them, extreme caution is necessary for what is being downloaded and from where. Also DO NOT allow programs like this to run unless you are using it. i.e., do not let it load at startup.

    Also run this: How to Protect yourself from malware!
     

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