On 5 June 2013 11:41, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
The ports that are appearing as closed are: 135, 137, 138, 139, 445
Solved. It's my ISP. They started blocking these ports for everyone.
Interesting that the ports they've had to block are all standard Windows ports (mostly for file sharing).
Surely most home users are sitting behind a router that wouldn't be forwarding these anyway, so I wonder what is the reason for having to block them? Are people opening ports on their routers to allow file sharing, or is there another reason why this would be enough of a vulnerability to justify blocking ISP-wide?
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