Thanks for the help, Lem and Wboston!

Alex


"Lem" <lemp40@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Alex wrote:
>
>> We have 2 units, one XP Home one XP Pro, operating on a LAN behind a
>> Linksys
>> BEFSR81 Ethernet router. I recently flashed the router to the latest
>> firmware. For reasons unknown, both computers seem to have slowed down
>> internet connection speeds lately.
>>
>> Today I was going to check on XPs firewall settings so I went to the
>> "Network Connections" area of the control panel. To my surprise I find
>> that
>> I now have two groups of connections listed. I have always had the "LAN
>> or
>> High Speed Internet" group of connections, which contain my onboard LAN
>> adapter and my 1394 adapter. But now I have a second group of
>> connections
>> called "Internet Gateway". Under the Internet Gateway I show an
>> "Internet
>> Connection". Right clicking the properties on the "Internet Connection"
>> brings up a single "General" tab with the following description: "This
>> connection allows you to connect to the internet through a shared
>> connection
>> on another computer." According to the status this connection is not
>> firewalled. When I try to delete the connection, I get an error message
>> that says that the connection is in use and cannot be deleted. Then I
>> went
>> to the second computer which has XP Pro and found the same connection.
>> Neither computer uses Internet Connection Sharing - all connections are
>> through the router. Looking further, I checked my daughter's laptop and
>> found no "Internet Gateway".
>>
>> So where does this "Internet Gateway" come from? Did we get some
>> nefarious
>> worm that is setting up an unwanted unfirewalled connection? How do I
>> disable and delete this connection?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Alex
>
> To clarify my previous post, see
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821371/en-us,
> which says:
>
> "By default, the Internet Gateway Device Discovery and Control Client is
> installed, whereas UPnP is not. In this default configuration, an Internet
> Connection icon appears in the Network Connections folder, and a Broadband
> Router icon does not appear in the My Network Places folder"
>
>
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> p
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