You know that firewall you suggested I use?
Just one little problem with it.
The stupid bastard is blocking my Win98 machine from doing certain things to the XP machine.
Im getting these popups saying that Active Response and Port Scans are being blocked. I thought it was a hacker at first until I noticed that the IP was exactly that of my Win98 machine.
Its not stopping the 2 machines from sharing printers and files as I enabled the option to allow that on both machines. It just seems strange that it would allow that but block this other stuff.
I think I might have found the options to stop this from happening but I just wanted to confirm.
I went to Advanced Options and clicked 'Add'
I entered a name for the rule 'The other PC you thick cunt' to be exact.
Under 'Action' I clicked 'Allow this traffic'
Then clicked the Hosts tab.
I clicked the Subnet option and entered the Subnet IP and Subnet mask numbers of the Win98 machine. Under ports and protocols I clicked the 'All' option.
I ignored the scheduling option entirely and clicked 'Select all' under the applications option.
Do you reckon Ive done the right thing?
I wasnt sure whether I should have just entered the IP of the other machine instead of all that Subnet stuff.
Just incase - here are the 2 messages I got.
Somebody is scanning your computer.
Your computer's UDP ports:
1067, 1068, 1069, and 1072 have been scanned from 192.168.2.43..
and
Traffic from IP address 192.168.2.43 is blocked from 01/22/2005 00:19:17 to 01/22/2005 00:29:17.
That second one got flagged up as a Major attack. The other one it considered minor.