Engenius drivers cause persistent open ports

I uninstalled a Engenius wifi usb adapter driver pack on a win98SE box,
because I am changing to a wired network.

I see now in my firewall that there are still listening
open ports (from the previously installed engenius software) coming from
application "SYSTEM" for ports 137-139 with an assigned dhcp IP of
169.xxx.xxx.xxx.

How do I get rid of these open listening ports? Setting rules in the
firewall to block them seem to have no effect; neither does disabling
allowing dhcp in the firewall ruleset, the open listening ports still
appear. Did this Engenius driver software, which never worked, modify my
system files, such that I must now do a complete reinstall of windows to
close these open ports that do not seem to be effected by blocking rules
in the firewall set?

Is this not a security hazard and/or will in not interfere with using
other wired network hardware?

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In <e3r19f$hng$(E-Mail Removed)> on Tue, 9 May 2006 21:24:00 +0000 (UTC), equus
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I uninstalled a Engenius wifi usb adapter driver pack on a win98SE box,
>because I am changing to a wired network.
>
>I see now in my firewall that there are still listening
>open ports (from the previously installed engenius software) coming from
>application "SYSTEM" for ports 137-139 with an assigned dhcp IP of
>169.xxx.xxx.xxx.
>
>How do I get rid of these open listening ports? Setting rules in the
>firewall to block them seem to have no effect; neither does disabling
>allowing dhcp in the firewall ruleset, the open listening ports still
>appear. Did this Engenius driver software, which never worked, modify my
>system files, such that I must now do a complete reinstall of windows to
>close these open ports that do not seem to be effected by blocking rules
>in the firewall set?
>
>Is this not a security hazard and/or will in not interfere with using
>other wired network hardware?

Those ports are Microsoft Windows NetBIOS file and printer sharing, not
Engenius.

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John Navas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> [POSTED TO alt.internet.wireless - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
>
> In <e3r19f$hng$(E-Mail Removed)> on Tue, 9 May 2006 21:24:00 +0000
> (UTC), equus <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I uninstalled a Engenius wifi usb adapter driver pack on a win98SE
>>box, because I am changing to a wired network.
>>
>>I see now in my firewall that there are still listening
>>open ports (from the previously installed engenius software) coming
>>from application "SYSTEM" for ports 137-139 with an assigned dhcp IP
>>of 169.xxx.xxx.xxx.
>>
>>How do I get rid of these open listening ports? Setting rules in the
>>firewall to block them seem to have no effect; neither does disabling
>>allowing dhcp in the firewall ruleset, the open listening ports still
>>appear. Did this Engenius driver software, which never worked, modify
>>my system files, such that I must now do a complete reinstall of
>>windows to close these open ports that do not seem to be effected by
>>blocking rules in the firewall set?
>>
>>Is this not a security hazard and/or will in not interfere with using
>>other wired network hardware?
>

If that's the case, why is there an IP assigned? And even if I try to
disable p 135-137 in the firewall ruleset, the open ports STILL appear.
I think the Engenius drivers may have altered my OS files in some
way. There is no Ip assigned under tcp/ip settings either, it only shows
as open ports of 169.xx.xx.xxx in the firewall monitor window. They
weren't there before the engenius drivers were installed and now I can't
get rid of them.


> Those ports are Microsoft Windows NetBIOS file and printer sharing,
> not Engenius.
>