Re: Port 20715

From: Berk S. Daemon (someone@somewhere.com)
Date: 04/29/02 

From: "Berk S. Daemon" <someone@somewhere.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:00:38 GMT

"Completely Normal" <cn@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:ic1pcusvi6aoboqk28ashhp3tcepqp7k81@4ax.com...
> Does anyone know what this port is used for?

That's a high end port, usually client side sockets use that but some
services can run on that, including torjan horses, etc..

run: netstat -an |more or netstat -a |more

See if you have it listening, and what's using it.

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