Re: Port 5000 and Windows XP

From: Adam Newhard <atnewhard(at)microstrain.com>
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 09:16:20 EDT

Side note, at one point in time, while working on a bunch of XP home and professional machines, going to services.msc and disabling upnp didn't always work. Since you don't really need it or want it, you should fully remove it from the system. In other words, after disabling it and rebooting, port scan the machine. There is/was a utility that'd remove upnp completely, but i forget where it is (i found it on google). Being a *nix head, I can't tell you exactly how to completely remove it, but i'm sure someone here can.
adam

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Adam Newhard
Microstrain, Inc.
If vegetarians eat vegetables, watch out for humanitarians

• Original Message ----- From: "dos cerveza" <dos_cerveza@mail.com> To: "matt willson" <mwillson@sbcglobal.net>; <security-basics@securityfocus.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 1:27 PM Subject: RE: Port 5000 and Windows XP

> Port 5000 TCP is used together with port 1900 UDP for UPnP (universal plug
and play). It is open on a default Windows XP install.
> If you don't use it (and you probably don't) you can easily disable the
mentioned ports from listening by opening 'services.msc' from a run box and stop the folowwing services:
> 'Universal Plug and Play Device Host' &
prevent them from starting up on a reboot.
> http://www.grc.com has a nice article about this too.
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