My Sygate 5.6 firewall is "allowing" Generic Host Process for Win32.
Is this the correct setting? I have no idea what the "Process" is,
nor do I really care. I just noticed it while resetting a few other
simpler settings in Sygate.
I checked with GRC.com. All my XP ports are Stealth - for what that's
worth. I do run the simpler XP firewall at the same time as the
Sygate.
I caused a few problems with my firewall, that's why I was drubbing
around inside it. I had to straighten a few things out.
On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 06:41:23 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On 11/2/2022 6:19 AM, corky@here.now.com wrote:
My Sygate 5.6 firewall is "allowing" Generic Host Process for Win32.
Is this the correct setting? I have no idea what the "Process" is,
nor do I really care. I just noticed it while resetting a few other
simpler settings in Sygate.
I checked with GRC.com. All my XP ports are Stealth - for what that's
worth. I do run the simpler XP firewall at the same time as the
Sygate.
I caused a few problems with my firewall, that's why I was drubbing
around inside it. I had to straighten a few things out.
When you run Firefox, it is listed as Firefox in Task Manager.
If the OS uses "rundll" to operate a DLL, then the Task Manager
displays "rundll" instead of the name of the DLL itself. This might
make it harder for an outgoing firewall to determine whether
it needs to be blocked or not.
A "svchost" might be more of what they had in mind. A svchost can
host sixteen items, and some of those items could be network-oriented.
On WinXP Pro, you can use "tasklist /svc" to see the names of the
entries inside a svchost. A tool such as Sysinternals Process Explorer, >>when you run it as administrator, can also ferret out the details
of a svchost.
Paul
Well, the thing was marked "Ask", and since I never remember that
process asking for "Allowance" at any time, I blocked it. So far, it
ain't complaining.
Don't even get into that svchost stuff. Sygate's full of those. I
don't even want to look them up to see what they are.
By now, you're probably asking yourself, if he doesn't know nor care
what most of that crapola is, why is he screwing with it? You're
right. I've been asking myself that for the last few hours.
On 11/2/2022 6:19 AM, corky@here.now.com wrote:
My Sygate 5.6 firewall is "allowing" Generic Host Process for Win32.
Is this the correct setting? I have no idea what the "Process" is,
nor do I really care. I just noticed it while resetting a few other
simpler settings in Sygate.
I checked with GRC.com. All my XP ports are Stealth - for what that's
worth. I do run the simpler XP firewall at the same time as the
Sygate.
I caused a few problems with my firewall, that's why I was drubbing
around inside it. I had to straighten a few things out.
When you run Firefox, it is listed as Firefox in Task Manager.
If the OS uses "rundll" to operate a DLL, then the Task Manager
displays "rundll" instead of the name of the DLL itself. This might
make it harder for an outgoing firewall to determine whether
it needs to be blocked or not.
A "svchost" might be more of what they had in mind. A svchost can
host sixteen items, and some of those items could be network-oriented.
On WinXP Pro, you can use "tasklist /svc" to see the names of the
entries inside a svchost. A tool such as Sysinternals Process Explorer,
when you run it as administrator, can also ferret out the details
of a svchost.
Paul
On Wed, 02 Nov 2022 06:40:16 -0600, corky@mulkins.org wrote:
On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 06:41:23 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On 11/2/2022 6:19 AM, corky@here.now.com wrote:
My Sygate 5.6 firewall is "allowing" Generic Host Process for Win32.
Is this the correct setting? I have no idea what the "Process" is,
nor do I really care. I just noticed it while resetting a few other
simpler settings in Sygate.
I checked with GRC.com. All my XP ports are Stealth - for what that's >>>> worth. I do run the simpler XP firewall at the same time as the
Sygate.
I caused a few problems with my firewall, that's why I was drubbing
around inside it. I had to straighten a few things out.
When you run Firefox, it is listed as Firefox in Task Manager.
If the OS uses "rundll" to operate a DLL, then the Task Manager
displays "rundll" instead of the name of the DLL itself. This might
make it harder for an outgoing firewall to determine whether
it needs to be blocked or not.
A "svchost" might be more of what they had in mind. A svchost can
host sixteen items, and some of those items could be network-oriented.
On WinXP Pro, you can use "tasklist /svc" to see the names of the
entries inside a svchost. A tool such as Sysinternals Process Explorer, >>>when you run it as administrator, can also ferret out the details
of a svchost.
Paul
Well, the thing was marked "Ask", and since I never remember that
process asking for "Allowance" at any time, I blocked it. So far, it >>ain't complaining.
Don't even get into that svchost stuff. Sygate's full of those. I
don't even want to look them up to see what they are.
By now, you're probably asking yourself, if he doesn't know nor care
what most of that crapola is, why is he screwing with it? You're
right. I've been asking myself that for the last few hours.
Well -
The Service Host process (svchost.exe) is a shell for loading services
from DLL files. Services are organized into groups, and each group is
run inside a different instance of the Service Host Process. There are >usually many instances of svchost.exe running because Windows requires >numerous services to operate correctly.
Page explaining it even in more detail:
What Is the Service Host Process (svchost.exe) and Why Are So Many
Running?
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-svchostexe-and-why-is-it-running/
Walter Glenn @wjglenn | ? Reviewed By Nick Lewis
Updated Oct 21, 2022, 10:18 am EDT | 4 min read
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