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On Friday 27 September 2002 09:49, you wrote:
> Yes, I'm using win-dos. My main box is compiling, and I'm selling this
> latop soon enough. Anyhow,
>
> Can anyone tell me, without any reasonable doubt, why various versions of
> windows 2000 and XP have port 1025 Open?
1025 is the first port (numerically) out of the priveleged port range. ports
<1025 are held in reserve for priveleged processes and are usually assigned
to specific services (e.g. 80 for http, 22 for ssh, 25 for smtp, etc...)
so that open port is probably originating from an unpriveleged process. this
could well be an outbound connection, but such ports are also used by
low-privelege programs such as games, instant messengers, personal ftp/web
servers, worms, etc. for outgoing connections.
take a look at what's running. under linux i would suggest running netstat,
but i have no idea what to suggest for windows. someone with more knowledge
of that OS will have to help you further =)
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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