IE listening on a UDP port

andrewe77 · Post by **andrewe77** » Sun Jul 15, 2001 1:51 pm

Whenever I load IE now, it starts to listen on a random UDP port. Yahoo messenger does the same thing. I use Tiny firewall and had to change my rules to allow for it cause IE won't work without it!!! Why would this start all of the sudden?

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sun Jul 15, 2001 4:30 pm

Do you have IE auto-update installed? If so, that may be why.

andrewe77 · Post by **andrewe77** » Sun Jul 15, 2001 4:35 pm

I have auto update turned off in the advanced setttings.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sun Jul 15, 2001 4:38 pm

Open an MSDOS Prompt window and type netstat -a

and as long as no connections from foreign IP's are shown, you are OK. (do this with IE closed)