NTL recently announced that they will be blokcing inbound traffic to certain ports on their network, which are used by some of the recent worms. The blocking will not affect most users, but it may cause problems for certain users who use the services which also use some of those ports, such as Windows file & print sharing.
The ports being blocked at present are:
* 137 (UDP)
* 138 (UDP)
* 139 (TCP)
* 445 (UDP & TCP)
* 593 (TCP)
* 1433 (TCP)
* 1434 (UDP)
* 27374 (TCP)
It seems like a good move, I'm just wondering when other ISP's who are providing Internet connectivity to the majority of people (who don't know how to keep their Windows computer secure) will do the same - these same users are the ones who think that they know about computers when the reality of it is they don't even know Windows products really, let alone *NIX or anything else.
Windows needs AV protection built in and on by default - forget the anti-trust issues, include some AV.
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