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Destination Host 255.255.255.255 ??
Name: talkingdrum101 Date: February 7, 2003 at 15:02:18 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I have a sygate firewall set to block Generic Host Process for Win32 services. In my traffic log however there is outbound traffic going out unblocked from system32\svchost.exe to a destination host 255.255.255.255 Traffic goes out approximately every six minutes. Does anyone know what this is and whether I should be worried? Thanks
Name: EC Date: February 7, 2003 at 16:02:59 Pacific
Reply:
There are several scvhost programs are they one that went out may not have been Generic host serv. In Zone Alarm they are all listed seperatly. Hopefully, Sygate did not fail you in letting it thru, but likely it was another part of svchost. I knwo of at least 4, liek svc host -epmap.
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Response Number 2
Name: gdg Date: February 7, 2003 at 18:03:21 Pacific
Reply:
255.255.255.255 is a subnet broadcast , it is broadcasting to anyone on your local network . Don't know why it would doing something like this unless you happen to have networking or file sharing or something like that turned on . It is basically harmless though .
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