I ran nmap on my
system and found that I have a lot of open ports (apparently I have a lot of
network services running). For example, MySQL, FTP, HTTP, etc. My
question is, how much of a security risk is this, and how do I shut of these
services and/or close these ports? Does the x11 port need to be left open
for x to function? I know this must be a common question, I tried
researching all over the place, but I can't seem to get a good understanding of
how to actually do the stuff. Thanks, all!
-Paul
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