Chinese hackers breach US military defences: Uncle Sam hacks back in counter attack...

My Zone Alarm goes nuts with Chicom IP addresses. Constantly.

Then again, one 10 Kt nuke 25K feet over Manchuria and...only kidding.

5.56mm

"Running Win98se. Can I close port 139, and if so, how?"

I really have no idea about that. I am running XP and there are no services attached to 139 on my machine (I checked this by having my program try to open a server socket on it - which it was able to do) Is there a program on your machine that is using 139? What? Anyways, you should go to ShieldsUp (https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2) and have it scan the ports on your machine. Click on "proceed" and then click on "all service ports." What is the result?

Thanks. I went to ShieldsUp via your earlier post. The result showed port 139 open. I couldn't see any indication on that site of how to close it. Guess I'll have to do further research for an answer.

Yeah, you should definitely check this out. It could be a legitimate service running on that port but it could also very well be a virus. Do some searches on Google using "port 139" and "virus" or "maleware", etc. If you determine that you have a virus/malware then you can go to

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/How_to_remove_a_Trojan_Virus_Worms_or_other_Malware-tut101.html

for instructions on how to remove it. The autoruns program is nice since you can run it in regular mode (i.e. not safe mode) while connected to the internet and go through the names of all the programs on your system that are set to start up automatically (this is what viruses/maleware usually do) and then search for them on internet to determine if they are potentially bad. Once you are sure a program is bad you can restart in safe mode and remove it via the autoruns program. Be careful not to remove good programs however as this might screw things up (keep a list of what you remove so that if you have problems you will know what the cause is...however, I have no idea how to put things back once they are removed though I assume it must be possible.)

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