On Wed, 03 Sep 2014, Ed Vance wrote to All:

 EV> When I run 60 second virus scan from Bitdefender I always see a
 EV> section in it about Open Ports on this XP box where svchost is
 EV> using a Port. 

 EV> The entry says it is Listening on Port 135 and I start worrying
 EV> because I remember reading on GRC.COM something about Port 135
 EV> shouldn't be used because it could be used by something nasty.

if that port is open to the outside of your LAN, yes... it is possible that
/if/ something nasty got into your network that it would travel to other
machines via that port...

it should be noted that without that port and at least two others being
open, machines on the same network won't be able to talk to each other for
things like sharing printers or even drive directories...

)\/(ark