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Open Ports
i was wondering if someone can explaine to me why i have so many open ports
on my PC. i run windows XP and want to know which ports are open fromwindows itself. the following ports are always open on my computer: 7 9 13 17 19 25 110 135 445 1025 1027 5000 |
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Open Ports
You can easily find out what most of these ports are usually associated with
and then from there track down the app or service on your PC and decide whether you need it. I notice that you have port 25 open. This is pretty unusual for a home PC as this normally means that you have an SMTP mail server running. Similarly 110 usually means that a POP server is running. Neither of these are at all normal for a home PC. Looks like someone has been doing some serious messing with your PC without your knowing about it. If you are running an SMTP mail server without your knowledge then it seems likely that your PC has been totally compromised. Take it off the net immediately. Take it to someone that knows what they are doing and have it cleansed. And then get a firewall. "Ben" wrote in message ... i was wondering if someone can explaine to me why i have so many open ports on my PC. i run windows XP and want to know which ports are open fromwindows itself. the following ports are always open on my computer: 7 9 13 17 19 25 110 135 445 1025 1027 5000 |
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:10:05 -0500, "Colin Painter"
wrote: You can easily find out what most of these ports are usually associated with and then from there track down the app or service on your PC and decide whether you need it. I notice that you have port 25 open. This is pretty unusual for a home PC as this normally means that you have an SMTP mail server running. Similarly 110 usually means that a POP server is running. Neither of these are at all normal for a home PC. Looks like someone has been doing some serious messing with your PC without your knowing about it. If you are running an SMTP mail server without your knowledge then it seems likely that your PC has been totally compromised. Take it off the net immediately. Take it to someone that knows what they are doing and have it cleansed. And then get a firewall. Isn't SMTP one of the IIS functions in XP pro? |
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Yes, there is an SMTP server in IIS. I run Home not Pro and I just assumed
the original poster was running Home although he did not say. Maybe someone can answer this: Does the default install of IIS on Pro also install and turn on the SMTP server? "Si Ballenger" wrote in message ... On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:10:05 -0500, "Colin Painter" wrote: You can easily find out what most of these ports are usually associated with and then from there track down the app or service on your PC and decide whether you need it. I notice that you have port 25 open. This is pretty unusual for a home PC as this normally means that you have an SMTP mail server running. Similarly 110 usually means that a POP server is running. Neither of these are at all normal for a home PC. Looks like someone has been doing some serious messing with your PC without your knowing about it. If you are running an SMTP mail server without your knowledge then it seems likely that your PC has been totally compromised. Take it off the net immediately. Take it to someone that knows what they are doing and have it cleansed. And then get a firewall. Isn't SMTP one of the IIS functions in XP pro? |
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