Hi, im new to security and this is my first post, so be gentle :) I have a fairly good understanding of the tcp/ip model and i think i understand what ports are for! but i cant understand that on my box, i have the 2 default mail ports (25 and 110) open. Its a windows 2000 box, service pack three. Im pretty sure im not running a mail server of any description.
The ports appear in box scanline and superscan eg C:\>sl -bht 1-1000 192.168.0.1 ScanLine (TM) 1.01 Copyright (c) Foundstone, Inc. 2002 http://www.foundstone.com Scan of 1 IP started at Wed Jan 08 00:36:51 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 192.168.0.1 Responded in 0 ms. 0 hops away Responds with ICMP unreachable: No TCP ports: 25 110 135 139 445 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Scan finished at Wed Jan 08 00:37:09 2003 1 IP and 1000 ports scanned in 0 hours 0 mins 18.16 secs but in netstat, activeports, fport they dont! does anybody know where they have come from? i googled for ages but dont seem to be getting anywhere. thanks joe
