Has there been meny people doing this?

I was told to disable my "SSDP Discovery Service" because another could gain acsess to my PC through it. Is this a safe practice?

BUT I noted that is also disables the "Universal Plug n' Play Device Host"
with this disabled will it affect USB hardware?

Let me know what you thoughts are. .

Go to the Gibson Research Site. You will not want to have plug and pray enabled after you read the article. Take care!

go to http://www.grc.com

he has a utility that fixes the PnP problem automatically for you. You just run it, it tells you if the hole is open or not, and then you can close or open the hole.

I'm not sure which service you're supposed to disable. There are two PnP services...one is necessary for local PnP...and the other one (which you should close) which allows computers on a network (ie: hackers using the net) to find your devices, etc

There is something to what everybody is saying about the dangers of this open port.Otherwise,why would microsoft have a patch available as a hotfix?To me,thats as close to an admission as your'e going to get from microsoft.

UPnP is what allows you to network with your refrigerator. You can prevent the service from starting and never miss it. That was one of the security holes that has been patched. I said "patched" instead of "fixed" because of history. By my observation, the statistical probability that it has been fixed is nearly zero. Sevareid's law applies,"The chief cause of problems is fixes" (Eric Sevareid, 1970).