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Microsoft's RPC service runs on Port 135.

"A buffer-overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Windows RPC service is being
widely exploited throughout the network."

http://nsit.uchicago.edu/alert/port-135.html

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
On: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:24 AM Booth wrote:
 
what is special about port 135? how many ports are there? About 64000 of
them? If you disable the ports then you disable their use, thus crippling
the use of the internet. 
 
My own opinion is that MS thinks that is a good thing. Then, when the time
comes we can all be "saved" by their extensions and badda badda bing, we are
absorbed. 
 
 




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