close ports

[julux]

How to close unused ports (like ICMP Ping,21 FTP, 23
Telnet)

[CheshireCat]

"julux" > wrote in message
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> How to close unused ports (like ICMP Ping,21 FTP, 23
> Telnet)
Try to find which programs/services have opened the port and prevent them
from running or install a firewall and tell it not to allow the applications
to open the port/act as servers

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

For FTP and Telnet simply disable the FTP server service and Telnet server
service. The best option is to install a firewall though.

Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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[Chuck]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:21:04 -0700, lassek >
wrote:

>hi guys!
>im wondering if is there any way of closing ports on xp without using any other 3rd party application.
>got a belking router but can not find that feature. ive got:
>application gate way to router services through my router
>virtual server
>client ip filters...
>
>i want to cle port 80 but i use client ip filtering it doesnt allow to connet to the internet.

Lassek,

The best way to close a port is to close the program opening that port. Are you
running a program that opens port 80? Merely accessing the internet (as a
client) doesn't open port 80 (as a server).

Did you do a security scan that shows that port open? Here are a couple that I
have used:
http://grc.com/default.htm ("ShieldsUP!")
http://scan.sygate.com/

What model Belkin router?

A neat way to close miscellaneous ports, with many routers, is to forward a port
to a non-existent computer. If you were to forward port 80 to ip address
192.168.0.254 (assuming your LAN is 192.168.0/24), and you had no computer at
that address, it would be closed (actually stealthed). See if "Virtual Server"
is a port forwarding ability.

If you want to find out about unknown programs opening port 80, get Port
Explorer (free) from
<http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home> to show you what
network connections your computer is actually opening, and what processes are
opening them. And Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

[Chuck]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:21:04 -0700, lassek >
wrote:

>hi guys!
>im wondering if is there any way of closing ports on xp without using any other 3rd party application.
>got a belking router but can not find that feature. ive got:
>application gate way to router services through my router
>virtual server
>client ip filters...
>
>i want to cle port 80 but i use client ip filtering it doesnt allow to connet to the internet.

Lassek,

The best way to close a port is to close the program opening that port. Are you
running a program that opens port 80? Merely accessing the internet (as a
client) doesn't open port 80 (as a server).

Did you do a security scan that shows that port open? Here are a couple that I
have used:
http://grc.com/default.htm ("ShieldsUP!")
http://scan.sygate.com/

What model Belkin router?

A neat way to close miscellaneous ports, with many routers, is to forward a port
to a non-existent computer. If you were to forward port 80 to ip address
192.168.0.254 (assuming your LAN is 192.168.0/24), and you had no computer at
that address, it would be closed (actually stealthed). See if "Virtual Server"
is a port forwarding ability.

If you want to find out about unknown programs opening port 80, get Port
Explorer (free) from
<http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home> to show you what
network connections your computer is actually opening, and what processes are
opening them. And Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

[Chuck]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:21:04 -0700, lassek >
wrote:

>hi guys!
>im wondering if is there any way of closing ports on xp without using any other 3rd party application.
>got a belking router but can not find that feature. ive got:
>application gate way to router services through my router
>virtual server
>client ip filters...
>
>i want to cle port 80 but i use client ip filtering it doesnt allow to connet to the internet.

Lassek,

The best way to close a port is to close the program opening that port. Are you
running a program that opens port 80? Merely accessing the internet (as a
client) doesn't open port 80 (as a server).

Did you do a security scan that shows that port open? Here are a couple that I
have used:
http://grc.com/default.htm ("ShieldsUP!")
http://scan.sygate.com/

What model Belkin router?

A neat way to close miscellaneous ports, with many routers, is to forward a port
to a non-existent computer. If you were to forward port 80 to ip address
192.168.0.254 (assuming your LAN is 192.168.0/24), and you had no computer at
that address, it would be closed (actually stealthed). See if "Virtual Server"
is a port forwarding ability.

If you want to find out about unknown programs opening port 80, get Port
Explorer (free) from
<http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home> to show you what
network connections your computer is actually opening, and what processes are
opening them. And Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

[Chuck]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:21:04 -0700, lassek >
wrote:

>hi guys!
>im wondering if is there any way of closing ports on xp without using any other 3rd party application.
>got a belking router but can not find that feature. ive got:
>application gate way to router services through my router
>virtual server
>client ip filters...
>
>i want to cle port 80 but i use client ip filtering it doesnt allow to connet to the internet.

Lassek,

The best way to close a port is to close the program opening that port. Are you
running a program that opens port 80? Merely accessing the internet (as a
client) doesn't open port 80 (as a server).

Did you do a security scan that shows that port open? Here are a couple that I
have used:
http://grc.com/default.htm ("ShieldsUP!")
http://scan.sygate.com/

What model Belkin router?

A neat way to close miscellaneous ports, with many routers, is to forward a port
to a non-existent computer. If you were to forward port 80 to ip address
192.168.0.254 (assuming your LAN is 192.168.0/24), and you had no computer at
that address, it would be closed (actually stealthed). See if "Virtual Server"
is a port forwarding ability.

If you want to find out about unknown programs opening port 80, get Port
Explorer (free) from
<http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home> to show you what
network connections your computer is actually opening, and what processes are
opening them. And Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

[Chuck]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:21:04 -0700, lassek >
wrote:

>hi guys!
>im wondering if is there any way of closing ports on xp without using any other 3rd party application.
>got a belking router but can not find that feature. ive got:
>application gate way to router services through my router
>virtual server
>client ip filters...
>
>i want to cle port 80 but i use client ip filtering it doesnt allow to connet to the internet.

Lassek,

The best way to close a port is to close the program opening that port. Are you
running a program that opens port 80? Merely accessing the internet (as a
client) doesn't open port 80 (as a server).

Did you do a security scan that shows that port open? Here are a couple that I
have used:
http://grc.com/default.htm ("ShieldsUP!")
http://scan.sygate.com/

What model Belkin router?

A neat way to close miscellaneous ports, with many routers, is to forward a port
to a non-existent computer. If you were to forward port 80 to ip address
192.168.0.254 (assuming your LAN is 192.168.0/24), and you had no computer at
that address, it would be closed (actually stealthed). See if "Virtual Server"
is a port forwarding ability.

If you want to find out about unknown programs opening port 80, get Port
Explorer (free) from
<http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home> to show you what
network connections your computer is actually opening, and what processes are
opening them. And Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

[Chuck]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:21:04 -0700, lassek >
wrote:

>hi guys!
>im wondering if is there any way of closing ports on xp without using any other 3rd party application.
>got a belking router but can not find that feature. ive got:
>application gate way to router services through my router
>virtual server
>client ip filters...
>
>i want to cle port 80 but i use client ip filtering it doesnt allow to connet to the internet.

Lassek,

The best way to close a port is to close the program opening that port. Are you
running a program that opens port 80? Merely accessing the internet (as a
client) doesn't open port 80 (as a server).

Did you do a security scan that shows that port open? Here are a couple that I
have used:
http://grc.com/default.htm ("ShieldsUP!")
http://scan.sygate.com/

What model Belkin router?

A neat way to close miscellaneous ports, with many routers, is to forward a port
to a non-existent computer. If you were to forward port 80 to ip address
192.168.0.254 (assuming your LAN is 192.168.0/24), and you had no computer at
that address, it would be closed (actually stealthed). See if "Virtual Server"
is a port forwarding ability.

If you want to find out about unknown programs opening port 80, get Port
Explorer (free) from
<http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home> to show you what
network connections your computer is actually opening, and what processes are
opening them. And Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

[Chuck]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:21:04 -0700, lassek >
wrote:

>hi guys!
>im wondering if is there any way of closing ports on xp without using any other 3rd party application.
>got a belking router but can not find that feature. ive got:
>application gate way to router services through my router
>virtual server
>client ip filters...
>
>i want to cle port 80 but i use client ip filtering it doesnt allow to connet to the internet.

Lassek,

The best way to close a port is to close the program opening that port. Are you
running a program that opens port 80? Merely accessing the internet (as a
client) doesn't open port 80 (as a server).

Did you do a security scan that shows that port open? Here are a couple that I
have used:
http://grc.com/default.htm ("ShieldsUP!")
http://scan.sygate.com/

What model Belkin router?

A neat way to close miscellaneous ports, with many routers, is to forward a port
to a non-existent computer. If you were to forward port 80 to ip address
192.168.0.254 (assuming your LAN is 192.168.0/24), and you had no computer at
that address, it would be closed (actually stealthed). See if "Virtual Server"
is a port forwarding ability.

If you want to find out about unknown programs opening port 80, get Port
Explorer (free) from
<http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home> to show you what
network connections your computer is actually opening, and what processes are
opening them. And Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

[Chuck]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:21:04 -0700, lassek >
wrote:

>hi guys!
>im wondering if is there any way of closing ports on xp without using any other 3rd party application.
>got a belking router but can not find that feature. ive got:
>application gate way to router services through my router
>virtual server
>client ip filters...
>
>i want to cle port 80 but i use client ip filtering it doesnt allow to connet to the internet.

Lassek,

The best way to close a port is to close the program opening that port. Are you
running a program that opens port 80? Merely accessing the internet (as a
client) doesn't open port 80 (as a server).

Did you do a security scan that shows that port open? Here are a couple that I
have used:
http://grc.com/default.htm ("ShieldsUP!")
http://scan.sygate.com/

What model Belkin router?

A neat way to close miscellaneous ports, with many routers, is to forward a port
to a non-existent computer. If you were to forward port 80 to ip address
192.168.0.254 (assuming your LAN is 192.168.0/24), and you had no computer at
that address, it would be closed (actually stealthed). See if "Virtual Server"
is a port forwarding ability.

If you want to find out about unknown programs opening port 80, get Port
Explorer (free) from
<http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home> to show you what
network connections your computer is actually opening, and what processes are
opening them. And Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.