Why is WCESCOMM listening on all these TCP/IP ports?

From: Bert Hyman <bert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:33:12 -0700

WinXP Pro SP2, ActiveSync 4.5.0.

I notice that WCESCOMM is listening on all the ports between 3000 and
3031 and between 6510 and 6541, plus a few others.

Why? Who is it expecting to come calling?

I'm sitting behind a firewall, so they're not coming in anyway.

Maybe that's what's behind the

"TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of
concurrent TCP connect attempts."

messages I keep seeing in the system event log.

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@xxxxxxxxxxx
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