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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~
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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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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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Ahh.... i understand now....
Thanks for the snappy reply loafer.
~Jon~
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