hi guys!
im wondering if is there any way of closing ports on xp without using any other 3rd party application.
got a belking router but can not find that feature. ive got:
application gate way to router services through my router
virtual server
client ip filters...
i want to cle port 80 but i use client ip filtering it doesnt allow to connet to the internet.
Lassek,
The best way to close a port is to close the program opening that port. Are you
running a program that opens port 80? Merely accessing the internet (as a
client) doesn't open port 80 (as a server).
Did you do a security scan that shows that port open? Here are a couple that I
have used:
http://grc.com/default.htm ("ShieldsUP!")
http://scan.sygate.com/
What model Belkin router?
A neat way to close miscellaneous ports, with many routers, is to forward a port
to a non-existent computer. If you were to forward port 80 to ip address
192.168.0.254 (assuming your LAN is 192.168.0/24), and you had no computer at
that address, it would be closed (actually stealthed). See if "Virtual Server"
is a port forwarding ability.
If you want to find out about unknown programs opening port 80, get Port
Explorer (free) from
<
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home> to show you what
network connections your computer is actually opening, and what processes are
opening them. And Process Explorer (free) from
<
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager.
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
