Rpc port

[Tbone1]

How do you close or block this port? I did a port scan and it showsthis port open on 135, I don't know if the 135 is the port #
or what.
I have norton firewall 2001 running and no info on how to.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks

[Joeteck]

Port 135 loc-srv/epmap
Microsoft DCE Locator service aka. end-point mapper. It works like Sun RPC portmapper, except that end-points can also be named pipes. Microsoft relies upon DCE RPC to remotely manage services. Some services that use port 135 of end-point mapping are:

DHCP server
DNS server
WINS server

Port MSRPC

RPCSS.EXE service

Telnet to port 135 on older WinNT machines, type about 20 characters with CR, then disconnect, hangs service driving CPU to 100%. Only solution is to kill RPCSS.EXE. Fixed in SP3 and beyond.
epdump.exe program will list all the "end-points", which lists the RPC services running an at which ports/named pipes.
Snork: RPC datagram spoofing address of victim1, send to victim2. The two machines go into endless loop sending RPC error messages to each other. RPCSS.EXE goes to 100% utilization. Post-SP3 hotfix is "snk-fix", fixed in SP4.

If you bought a CABLE/DSL Router for about $100 bucks (hint, hint) you will not have to worry about it!!

-Joeteck:)

[Tbone1]

Thanks !!
going to purchase a router soon.

[Joeteck]

He's another solution.

Right click "My network Places" > properties

Locate "Local area connection" > right click, then properties.

Highlight TCP/IP, then click properties > advanced

Click the "option" TAB

select TCP/IP Filtering > click properties.

Then select what you want!!!

Hope this helped!!

-Joeteck :D

PS: This is with Windows 2000