Port security

[Guest]

How can I close all ports to show as stealthed? I did a security scan at
Symantec and found that ports ICMP, 23 and 80 were open. The rest of the
ports were stealthed.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Please visit the experts in the Windows Firewall Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.networking.firewall

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| How can I close all ports to show as stealthed? I did a security scan at
| Symantec and found that ports ICMP, 23 and 80 were open. The rest of the
| ports were stealthed.

 

[Steve Riley [MSFT]]

If you performed this from a computer that's running a telnet server and a
web server, then these are the results I'd expect.

Or if you did this from a Windows XP computer behind a SOHO firewall
(Linksys, D-Link, Netgear), then it's really the firewall that's getting
scanned, and again I'd expect this result -- many SOHO firewalls are by
default listening on these ports for remote administration.

Steve Riley
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