Hi Sayo You remind me of me when I first got into this.
The listening status shows that your machine is listening on certain ports for incoming or outgoing connections. It's best to find out what the commonly used ports are, and what applications need them, and what application you don't need. There are also tools available that will associate the listening port to the application on your PC. The best way to close the ports is to close the application associated with it. If you prefer commandline, you may want to work on Linux :-) Ciao Jude ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sayo Venchetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:22 AM Subject: Some 'new guy' questions Hey, kind of a new guy to the security field...I only have basic and intermediate knowledge of the subject, but I ran a netstat -ano on my computer the other day and noticed I have a bunch of connections to my computer set on Listening status, that I have not activated myself, and appear to be hackers(?). I was wondering if there's a command to manually close those connections? BTW, I'm running Windows XP if it means anything :P Also, I was wondering, as I'm getting more and more into security and such, I'm trying to learn as much as I can soon, so to start off, I have a simple question. Windows, any build after 95, scrapped the DOS system and replaced it with a watered down crappier version called Command Prompt :P. When I'm running batch programs, and commands for nbtstat and netstat and such, is there anything better than command prompt, like, can I download DOS somewhere? Also, how exactly do I compile programs from source documents? Thanks much, Sayo --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
