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Open Ports

wild_eyed · 2004-03-22 15:36:10

i just ran the shields up checker, and it saw that i had one open port. 1025. is this dangerous? and if so how can i close it?

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22-03-2004 4:36pm

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wild_eyed

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i just ran the shields up checker, and it saw that i had one open port. 1025. is this dangerous? and if so how can i close it?

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#2 22-03-2004 4:38pm
zAbbo

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First 1024 ports are reserved for the OS, anything above can be used by applications.

start > run > netstat -a

Should make it clearer, if not get this : http://www.sysinternals.com/files/tcpview.zip :

And see whats going on

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