When I do a netstat -an these ports are always listening, I have a firewall
blocking all lower ports but I was wondering how I could close them all
together, or what programmes are using these ports?

Regards,

Chris B.

In article <cla2r2$aor$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>, astars@hotmail.com says...
You can use a program called Active Ports to see what programs are using
what ports.. Search Google for "Active Ports". Should be available
from many sources...

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Port 445 is the "messenger" service in NT, W2K and XP. It is not needed and is
pretty easy to disable without any ill effects. Port 135 is RPC/DCOM and is
harder to disable. Depending on what services you have running, you may not be
able to close it.

Gibson Research has a couple of free utilities to safely disable these services.
http://www.grc.com/dcom/ (135)
http://www.grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm (445)

Or you can disable them yourself by changing the appropriate settings in
"Services."
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"methanol" <astars@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:cla2r2$aor$1@lust.ihug.co.nz:

I have a program (SafeXP) which "hardens" my win2k, and as
part of this it shuts down port 445. However, when I tried
to do a windows update I found that there was a problem with
network connectivity, so backtracking I re-enabled port 445,
and all went well. So, for some reason windows update needs
this port, which is fine, now I open/shut the port as I need.
No other program seems to complain about this.

I have port 445 closed and use Windows Update regularly. I closed my port by
disabling the "messenger" service, not with a utility. I suspect that "SafeXP"
does more than close the port.
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