Microsoft Fax Services has a Trojan Horse?

I'm running WinXP Home SP2 on a Dell I2500. The entire system is as clean
from malware as I can keep it.
Yesterday I installed the MS Fax service that comes with XP. As soon as I
activate the fax console from my desktop, I get repeated alerts from Norton:
"Security Alert created for Default Block Netspy Trojan Horse rule."

What's going on and what's my next step?

"Callalily" <callalily DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:932C0985-F3C2-4914-B1EF-D352B6F04B6A@microsoft.com...
> LOL! Thank goodness I found your advice, Lem. I went to online chat with
> Symantec (huge mistake) and, guess what?, I got the royal runaround like
> they
> have never heard of this problem before. They kept passing me from one
> tech
> person to another. I finally said DUH! and disconnected from them. The
> same alert was coming through for me when I configured my Microsoft FAX
> today. I read the tech articles you linked to and will see if that will
> solve the problem. I am still a little concerned that by opening Port
> 1024,
> I am making myself more vulnerable to attack. True or false?
> --
> Callalily
>
>


You are only allowing connections to and from the local host at 127.0.0.1.
That IP address is not routable on the Internet.


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Earl F. Parrish