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Title: found a program to close ports commonly used by worms
Post by: bobgar34 on May 15, 2009, 09:53:40 AM

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Title: Re: found a program to close ports commonly used by worms
Post by: harry 48 on May 24, 2009, 01:28:29 PM

found it myself will wait to hear what the experts say about it

Title: Re: found a program to close ports commonly used by worms
Post by: BC_Programmer on May 24, 2009, 02:02:58 PM

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Since most of the viruses use known vulnerabilities in Windows services, which are enabled by default, and can’t be disabled via the operating system’s configuration

erm... yes they can.

Start->Run "services.msc"

All the describes services can be disabled here. However some of those (namely RPC locator) are required for some programs. For example, most .NET programs use Remote Procedure calls (even locally) and thus require the RPC locator to be running.


personally, I just leave all this to my hardware firewall.

Title: Re: found a program to close ports commonly used by worms
Post by: Broni on May 24, 2009, 03:34:30 PM

Adding to BC's....open ports (by user's choice, or by some programs' needs are fine, as long, as they're made stealth by a firewall.

Title: Re: found a program to close ports commonly used by worms
Post by: Helpmeh on May 24, 2009, 05:02:56 PM

Quote from: Broni on May 24, 2009, 03:34:30 PM

Adding to BC's....open ports (by user's choice, or by some programs' needs are fine, as long, as they're made stealth by a firewall.

I think 2 of my ports are closed, but all the rest are stealthed...Let me find the test somewhere...

edit: Found the test! http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.grc.com%2Fx%2Fne.dll%3Fbh0bkyd2&ei=AkT4SeaKGonyMu3dmMAP&usg=AFQjCNGcEUI0ueElnD-6v2QlfKZdA721sw&sig2=JmJ5-pG6Zljfx4gJj8MmFw

Do every single test, post the logs.

Title: Re: found a program to close ports commonly used by worms
Post by: computeruler on May 24, 2009, 06:05:46 PM

all of mine are stealthed

Title: Re: found a program to close ports commonly used by worms
Post by: harry 48 on May 25, 2009, 02:49:43 PM

same here all have been checked out as safe

Title: Re: found a program to close ports commonly used by worms
Post by: Helpmeh on May 25, 2009, 03:02:16 PM

For some wierd reason, when I tried to block inbound TCP on my CA Suite's firewall, the security center says that the firewall hasn't been installed, yet I can access it via the task bar (on the CA Suite icon).

Title: Re: found a program to close ports commonly used by worms
Post by: computeruler on May 25, 2009, 05:05:17 PM

I vote for just getting rid of ca

Title: Re: found a program to close ports commonly used by worms
Post by: Helpmeh on May 26, 2009, 03:45:59 PM

Quote from: computeruler on May 25, 2009, 05:05:17 PM

I vote for just getting rid of ca

As soon as it expires, I'm ditching it. It absolutely sucks, but I'm not wasting money.