Hi, I hope this is a simple "yes that's how it's supposed to be" answer.

I have had OSSEC 2.6 running on about 9 PCs for over a year, that 
auto-reboot every night.  Every time I reboot, and services start, i get 
notice of services that were blocked by windows firewall.  

Recently, I noticed that on a few days this year, windows firewall 
blocked various UDP ports that  "P:\Program 
Files\ossec-agent\ossec-agent.exe" was trying to listen to, based on the 
windows security logs, as it does for any service that starts up that 
listening but not allowed to in the firewall rules, and logs that it was 
blocked in the windows firewall rules.


It happened 39 times in May on 3 different days, (not on reboot), 1 in 
august (upon reboot) and  1 event on Dec 6 (upon reboot) and  20 events on 
the night of the 7th, (not upon reboot, but I think the OSSEC server went 
down around that time)

This was on about 4 out of 9 machines, all nearly identical.  

The first day was in may 1, and it seemed to have multiple events all on 
one PC.  The second was on the 3rd on two more PC, 1 event each.  Then 
finally may 28th, on all of the PCs that I've seen this on.

I give all this detail, just to illustrate how sort of random it seems.

My main question is, should ossec-agent.exe cause this event to ever occur? 
 If so, why so sporadically?

If not, well, any other thoughts?

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