Which UDP ports were blocked by Windows Firewall?  

On Saturday, December 22, 2012 11:51:32 AM UTC-8, Beau wrote:
>
> 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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