Port 17

[Guest]

I did a port scan on my server and found out port 17 is open, I also found
out that this is for the quote of the day? Do I need this open and if not how
do I close it?

thx

 

[Guest]

Install a firewall.

br,
Denis

 

[JM]

quoting:

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br,
Denis

I did a port scan on my server and found out port 17 is open, I also found
out that this is for the quote of the day? Do I need this open and if not how
do I close it?

thx

Install a firewall.

That's just masking the symtoms.

Tcpview will show you what running app or service is opening anty port.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/tcpview.shtml