Greets all,

I know its been a LONG time since I have posted, but this time I thought I would have to post this as a warning so that All are aware of this, if they dont know already:

About a year ago when XP first came out, I made a stink over a open port which I found suspicious for XP, after further investigating, it was found that this port was deadly, and suggested it closed, only for 3 months later for a security firm to deem it a dangerous port, and should be closed. It went further to the FBI which also warned that MS's patch did not correctly close the hole and that it was still a dangerous target.

Well the reason I bring this up is cause after changing the key to a Enterprise Key, I noticed that Nero, for some ungodly reason is using the same port that a security firm and the FBI deemed unsafe.

Port 5000

So please becareful when and if you use the network burning feature, since Ahead seems not to be up to speed with using a volitale port.

I do not suggest to anyone to allow this port to be used, if you have not closed this port then I would suggest you go into your services and shutdown the service that does make this port open, which is:

Universal Plug and Play Device Host & SSDP Discovery Service.

Set them to disable.

Now to see why Nero would use this port.

Thanks for the info...

The following freeware software will
disable the Universal Plug and Play Device Host & SSDP Discovery Service.

goto:

h**p://grc.com/files/unpnp.exe

regards

italiano :)

Thanks for the warning AngelDeath ;)

You can stop this service with XP-AntiSpy too :lol:

Thanx for the heads up AD, nice to hear from you :)

Thanks AngelDeath for this head up :). Its good to see you again!

Thanks AngelDeath for this, its good to see you again

Yes there are other programs that will close things for you but it is a good idea not to get comfortable allowing something else do what you can do.

Thanks and Happy New Year AngelDeath.

thank you. mine was closed already for some reason.

its a known fact that xp isnt too secure, but who of you have been hacked yet?

That is true, but if you had been hacked would you really know it. Not that I am doubting anyones brains but , would a hacker leave message or just look for information he could use without your knowledge. You are right though......who has??

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL

Nice to see you again. Thanks for the heads up.