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#1 2009-10-25 13:41:50

jon.wulf
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Registered: 2009-07-03
Posts: 40

aMSN opening arbitrary ports

Hello all,

the other evening I noticed something rather odd....an open port on my pc.... Now I'm a total privacy fanatic, I run Net monitoring Plasmas and Nmap my computer atleast once a week and you get the idea. I checked my firewall top to bottom and couldn't find out what it is, eventually I figured out it's aMSN. Just starting it opens a random port and that's BEFORE I log in. 

I'm not terribly worried or anything, but so far no one seems to know why it does this. It used to only show up on a localhost scan but now it does if I scan my 192.168 address too. Does anyone have any ideas on why it's doing this or if there's anything I can or should do?

Thanks,

~Jon~

P.S.

Here's Nmaps output:

[jon@Underworld ~]$ nmap -p- localhost

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-10-25 13:43 GMT
Interesting ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1):       
Not shown: 65534 closed ports                                 
PORT      STATE SERVICE                                       
63215/tcp open  unknown                                       

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.49 seconds

It's the same for the 192.168 address.

Last edited by jon.wulf (2009-10-25 13:46:03)

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#2 2009-10-25 14:05:53

loafer
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Registered: 2009-04-14
Posts: 1,772

Re: aMSN opening arbitrary ports

This explains it:

http://amsn.sourceforge.net/wiki/tiki-i … ns#faq-9-1

Last edited by loafer (2009-10-25 14:07:19)


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#3 2009-10-25 14:08:35

jon.wulf
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Registered: 2009-07-03
Posts: 40

Re: aMSN opening arbitrary ports

Ahh.... i understand now....

Thanks for the snappy reply loafer.

~Jon~

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