Re: System Process Listening on thousands of ports

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Yes it's been scanned for Viruses and adware.

Thanks

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

> Yeah, but has it been scanned for viruses, adware or spyware?
>
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> "Paul_WWF" <Paul_WWF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:0558C0AC-2CEF-4778-8171-CB830B6582FD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I've got a Win2K DC which has started acting real funny.
> >
> > Firtsly I noticed the Novell client would not accept my username and
> > password but I could validate myself as a windows user. This is because it
> > can't start UNC pathnames to other boxes or browse the network, but being
> > a
> > dc could validate me internally as a windows user.
> > eventually after many 8032 and 8021 errors in the system log i found
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=319504
> > To be very descriptive of the situation I have.
> > Problem being , the process creating all the connections and exceeding my
> > 'limit' is the System process (PID 8). I have no idea why it's creating so
> > many listening ports and wondered if anyone here had any idea how to help
> > me
> > trouble shoot this?
> > The System process has created a listening instance on every port from
> > 1026
> > to 5000 . The box is fully service packed and hotfixed.
> > HELP?
> >
> > Paul.
>
>
>
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