On Thursday 06 December 2001 02:56 am, Steve Newhouse wrote:
> Hello all, I have a very basic question for you:
>
> I did a scan of myself today and noticed that I have
> ports 80, 81, 1080, and 8080 open. I am running Win2K
> Pro and am not hosting a website from this computer.
>
> Port 1080, and 8080 are of particular interest to me-
> might someone have installed a bouncer or proxy of some
> sort without my knowledge? Or is there another reason why
> these ports may be open?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
make sure it was your machine you scanned, if you're in an environment like a
college you might have scanned your gateway, if it really is your machine
then yeah, you were likely compromised
