Re: Ports used in making 'network places' connection

From: Keith W. McCammon (km@km.com)
Date: 11/27/02 

From: "Keith W. McCammon" <km@km.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:49:48 -0500

> I'm getting 'intrusion attepts' on my PC when I try to make a new
> connection to an FTP server in the 'network places' folder of xp/2000.
> Is this normal? I'm being notified of incoming connections to the
> 'Sockets de Trois' trojan on port 5000/5001.

It's likely either the ephemeral port being used to establish the control
channel, or the port selected for the passive data channel. Pretty
standard, but would set off a generic firewall/IDS.

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