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> PPayne> Hmm.  Go wardsauto go, in my case.  My firewall blocks probing by
> PPayne> by this site - what are they up to:

> They don't seem to be up to much.  What you are blocking are broadcasts
> in your subnet by people within the same subnet who forgot to turn off
> their "Windows file and print sharing."  You figure this out by looking
> at the ports (137,138 are used by netbios over IP), and the 255 at the
> end (broadcast address).  No malice there, this is standard windows
> behaviour to make all the machines in the network to magically appear
> in your "network neighnourhood."  They accomplish this by making the
> machines shout [sub]net-wide.

This system isn't networked.

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