Port 5000 TCP is used together with port 1900 UDP for UPnP (universal plug and play). It is open on a default Windows XP install. If you don't use it (and you probably don't) you can easily disable the mentioned ports from listening by opening 'services.msc' from a run box and stop the folowwing services: 'Universal Plug and Play Device Host' & 'SSDP Discovery Service'. Be sure to set them to 'disabled' or 'manual' to prevent them from starting up on a reboot. http://www.grc.com has a nice article about this too.
Sincerely Dos > I had reason to look at a Windows XP box and discovered port 5000 open > on > it. Subsequent research has shown that this is normal (albeit stupid). > > However, when I connect to port 5000, I get an "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad > Request". Also, fport /ap shows port 5000 open, but will not associate > an > application with it. Am I overly paranoid or has this box been > compromised? > > Thanks -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
