What Ports should I keep closed?

[-=SG=-]

Hi!

I have Norton Firewall, and I was wondering what ports I
should have closed. The only thing I do on my comp is use
the internet, download off of Kazaa, check my e-mail, and
play counterstrike online. Do I need more than 4 ports
open all of the time? I'm just trying to reduce my chances
of being hacked. I get alerts ALL THE TIME that people are
trying to get into my computer via "sub 7 trojan" and
whatnot. Thanks!

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

Well, realistically, you should have all ports closed, except those that you're using -- in
the Norton Firewall, you can actually have a different range or number of ports, based upon
the application -- and in most cases, the "automatic" setting works quite well (in the 2003
version, Automatic should work fine with Messenger).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"-=SG=-" > wrote in message
...
> Hi!
>
> I have Norton Firewall, and I was wondering what ports I
> should have closed. The only thing I do on my comp is use
> the internet, download off of Kazaa, check my e-mail, and
> play counterstrike online. Do I need more than 4 ports
> open all of the time? I'm just trying to reduce my chances
> of being hacked. I get alerts ALL THE TIME that people are
> trying to get into my computer via "sub 7 trojan" and
> whatnot. Thanks!