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I have to take issue with this. One of the main reasons it wasn't implemented earlier is that ntl wanted to continue to offer an unblocked service where all ports were available, however sadly it seems that however much one would like to offer this, the reality is that the service would be better for the majority if this port were blocked, as no matter how much education you do there are people out there who don't know how to (or can't) patch their machines before putting them on the network. Stopping them being infected is the main reason for this, with several thousand installs a week it should cut the infection rate a lot and we can get the CSRs back to dealing with day to day issues, not the consequences of Microsoft's built-in insecurity.