Closing Ports

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

David
Tue Nov 25 13:00:22 CST 2003


"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.

Bill
Tue Nov 25 15:07:37 CST 2003

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.
>
>
>.
>

David
Tue Nov 25 16:27:49 CST 2003

and just how do you 'physically' open and close ports???

"Bill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06bb01c3b398$273547f0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> 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.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

Bill
Tue Dec 02 18:28:20 CST 2003

Agreed, but Windows 2000 doesn't have a software firewall. It does have
ICS, which provides the benefits of NAT protection to the clients behind it,
but there's no protection for the ICS machine itself. XP adds a firewall
blocking inbound traffic. The XP firewall doesn't block outbound traffic,
but can log it optionally.

"David Robbins" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>
> "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.
>
>