Switched from ZoneAlarm to Tiny firewall - odd things happening

[QuiltingB]

I recently switched from ZA to Tiny - think its much better, and uses almost no resources. Great stuff.

Question - I have this thing locked down tight so that I have to permit any activity. In the last 5 minutes I have gotten 4 alerts that read: 'someone at 164.cambridge-19rh.ma.dial-access.xxx.net [xx.xx.xx.xxx] to port 137 owned by dial up networking wants to send you a UDP datagram'
my program used is rnaap.exe . I ofcourse forbid this.

question: do I need this dial up networking rnaap.exe to simply dial up my internet connection? Can I disable it, what is it? And what is UDP datagram?

 

[CyGho]

Go to the firewall administration. On the firewall tab click on "advanced". Then to the "Microsoft Networking" tab. I have everything UNchecked there and no problems with the netbios ports 137 and 138 anymore. A good reference database is at: http://tpffaq.r4f.com/. Look in chapter 5.8 how to diable netbios and in chapter 5.9 why you should do that.