From: "kenny" <dot@net.biz>

| Because you have to keep configuring routers all the time if you change
| applications all the time... and I do!
|
| Furthermore I am sure there is a way to do this without getting more
| hardware
|
| --

I have been using Routers for almost a decade. First on Comcast cable using a BEFSR41 v1
Router and now with Verizon DSL and a Linksys BEFSR81 v2 Router. The configuration is
*very* static. I also have uPnP enabled for uPnP compliant software.

I don't understand why you think "...if you change applications all the time" it would
affect the Router. It doesn't.

Additionally I block TCP and UDP ports 135 ~ 139 and 445 on my Router and that makes me
quite safe against NetBIOS pop-ups, hackers and Internet worms such as; Sasser, BugBear,
SDBot, Lovsan/Blaster, etc.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

its hard to explain now, but I need to be directly connected to the internet
and use only a software firewall.

Anyway I found an alternative solution to my problem (for the people who are
googleing, perhaps they may find some use in this info) that was using a
small application from nirsoft to restart the explorer shell after the boot
Its called EXPLORE START
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/explorestart.zip

I put that in my startup folder so that after the boot the shell was
restarted and everything is working ok now... So instead of starting the
service before I logged on, I restart the shell after wards.

Kenny


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"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:%2339$rA46FHA.3760@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> From: "kenny" <dot@net.biz>
>
> | Because you have to keep configuring routers all the time if you change
> | applications all the time... and I do!
> |
> | Furthermore I am sure there is a way to do this without getting more
> | hardware
> |
> | --
>
> I have been using Routers for almost a decade. First on Comcast cable
> using a BEFSR41 v1
> Router and now with Verizon DSL and a Linksys BEFSR81 v2 Router. The
> configuration is
> *very* static. I also have uPnP enabled for uPnP compliant software.
>
> I don't understand why you think "...if you change applications all the
> time" it would
> affect the Router. It doesn't.
>
> Additionally I block TCP and UDP ports 135 ~ 139 and 445 on my Router and
> that makes me
> quite safe against NetBIOS pop-ups, hackers and Internet worms such as;
> Sasser, BugBear,
> SDBot, Lovsan/Blaster, etc.
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>