On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 4:40:32 PM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 10:33:22 AM UTC-4, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: >> >> http://superuser.com/questions/360236/why-is-system-listening-on-port-8000 > > > My money is on the following answer posted on the above ask page: "There > are a few trojans / backdoors that use 8000, so perhaps booting an > Antivirus disk and doing a full scan would be a good idea." > > If you can't figure out what is binding port 8000 then you should take > your zombie offline before it sends out more spam. > You could also be too lazy to learn how to check what is listening on which port in Windows and also have a legitimate program that is already listening to that port... For example some maintenance software from your laptop vendor (as the Sony VAIO stuff mentioned on the same page).
In fact I would put my money on this because I had the same behavior on my laptop a long time ago and have little chance to have any trojan or malicious stuff on it because the first thing I used to do when I booted into windows was to update it and I never installed anything exotic except for VLC. And I definitely had a bunch of Lenovo crappy software installed by default and which would do plenty of stuff I was not even aware of. You could argue that such software is actually malware. On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 4:40:32 PM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 10:33:22 AM UTC-4, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: >> >> http://superuser.com/questions/360236/why-is-system-listening-on-port-8000 > > > My money is on the following answer posted on the above ask page: "There > are a few trojans / backdoors that use 8000, so perhaps booting an > Antivirus disk and doing a full scan would be a good idea." > > If you can't figure out what is binding port 8000 then you should take > your zombie offline before it sends out more spam. > > > -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
