Re: Closing Ports

From: Bill (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:07:37 -0800

Actually, you can physically open and close ports but it's
not recommended - it's extremely difficult to know which
ports are going to be used by your applications. The
other post is correct - you need to let the firewall do
the work - and I highly recommend a hardware firewall over
a software based one. Having said this, the Norton
firewall software is actually very effective when used
with Lavasofts AdAware 6.0. Also, if you dig around the
Internet you can find a modified version of Kazaa that has
the spy ware removed.
>-----Original Message-----
>
>"Howard" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:0e9101c3b385$9b7a9470$3101280a@phx.gbl...
>> There are dozens of pages that describe using
>> netstat to look at ip tables. And many authors
>> suggest closing unneeded ports.
>>
>> But I have not yet come across a sigle document that
>> tells me the commands to control closing a port in
>> windows if it exists.
>>
>> And don't suggest buying more utilities. That is the
>> biggest scam.
>>
>> If is a partial listing of what I am getting. Yes it is
>> kazaa, but is there some way to control it's access by
>> port???
>>
>> Active Connections
>> Active Connections
>>
>> Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
>> TCP kazaa:3170 KAZAA:0
listening
>> TCP kazaa:3185 KAZAA:0
listening
>> TCP kazaa:1251 KAZAA:0
listening
>> TCP kazaa:3162 KAZAA:0
listening
>> TCP kazaa:1250 KAZAA:0
listening
>>
>> Thansk Howard
>
>you can only 'close' ports two ways
>1. stop the application or service that has it open
>2. install a firewall
>
>installing a firewall doesn't really 'close' the port,
but it does prevent
>access to it from outside your computer.
>
>so either turn off kazaa or turn on the windows firewall
if you have 2000 or
>xp, or download zonealarm or another free firewall, or
buy a software
>firewall, or buy a hardware firewall.
>
>
>.
>

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