[ale] nmap shows evil open ports

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Jul 25 16:56:47 EDT 2002


First step is to slam the port shut shut with your firewall. Then it's
time to go over the system in question with a fine tooth comb. Start
with a bootable, clean anti-virus scanning boot disk. Most of the big
guys (Norton and others) have a boot disk to work from.

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 16:25, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> Without being terribly specific on this open list...
> nmap shows I have some open ports which are
> well-known Win virus/control ports. Portsentry
> doesn't indicate that there is any traffic on any of them
> but they *are* open. How do I find out which processes
> opened them and how do I close these ports?
> TIA! -Brian
> 
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