Here's what happened; what does it mean?
Macintosh:~ Alvin$ netstat -an | grep LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 fe80::1%lo0.631 *.*
LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.3829 *.*
LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.631 *.*
LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 ::1.631 *.*
LISTEN
Macintosh:~ Alvin$
On May 1, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Listening: I thought that someone on the outside was listening!
Having your computer listening is not such a good thing either. It
might
actually do what's its told. Some of the most famous exploits run
against
Windows come from that OS not following Mom's advice "Don't listen to
strangers."
To see what ports you Mac is listening to, type this in Terminal:
netstat -an | grep LISTEN
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