Port 4980 ?? on WinXP Home

[Mike]

I am running WinXp Home, P4 M on my laptop. I had McAfee
Firewall + ver. 5.0.5.7 running last night and it caught
something/someone trying to access Port 4980 (TCP). I had
10 hits within about 5 minutes. The only thing I was doing
was reading e-mail with Outlook XP; also this has NEVER
shown up b4.

I could not trace the source, as the HackerWatch.org found
no registrant view. When I click more info, it says
nothing about what the port is for, and usually has an
idea (eg: port 80 for internet traffic).

Can anyone tell me what this port is used for? and should
I close it or not? I did searches on Google, Yahoo,
Microsoft site, etc.

Mind you, I am only a home user, not a business, but still
don't want anyone giving me anything bad...

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

The purpose of a firewall is to prevent unauthorized access to your PC.
However, one cannot prevent a malicious attack from occurring. Your
firewall is doing its job and alerting you to an attack which you cannot
prevent, and your firewall is preventing the attack from successful intrusion.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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|I am running WinXp Home, P4 M on my laptop. I had McAfee
| Firewall + ver. 5.0.5.7 running last night and it caught
| something/someone trying to access Port 4980 (TCP). I had
| 10 hits within about 5 minutes. The only thing I was doing
| was reading e-mail with Outlook XP; also this has NEVER
| shown up b4.
|
| I could not trace the source, as the HackerWatch.org found
| no registrant view. When I click more info, it says
| nothing about what the port is for, and usually has an
| idea (eg: port 80 for internet traffic).
|
| Can anyone tell me what this port is used for? and should
| I close it or not? I did searches on Google, Yahoo,
| Microsoft site, etc.
|
| Mind you, I am only a home user, not a business, but still
| don't want anyone giving me anything bad...

 

[Mike]

I can understand your response, but how do I know what the
port is intended to be used for? Or is it just a generic
open port not assigned to any certain program/use?

 

[Guest]

Did I post my reply to your answer the right way? Do I
reply to the original message or the reply to the message
for it to move up, so it gets reread???

Sorry - hope it's not a dumb question - just want to do it
correct

thanks in advance