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baken

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system connecting to avast ?
« on: January 20, 2012, 01:35:18 AM »
after a game crash today i did a hard reset and when entering windows i went in comodo to look at my connection and there was a connection from system to 149.7.241.26 port 138 searching on google i only found a few reference to this ip and it was avast can anyone confirm that this ip is avast and its normal that system was connecting to it

i did a scan after that to be sure and it didn't found anyting
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DonZ63

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Re: system connecting to avast ?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 02:33:13 AM »
Your first issue is why Comodo allowed a dial-out from a NetBios port to an external IP address. The NetBios ports should be restricted to LAN only connections. Unless you truely have a LAN setup, you should disable NetBIOS.
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baken

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Re: system connecting to avast ?
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 03:24:21 AM »

ok i just blocked both port 137 138 is it safe to disable NetBios completely?
also looking for 149.7.241.26 on google it seem to be download116.avast.com
« Last Edit: January 20, 2012, 06:04:34 AM by baken »
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