Re: help with netstat output

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Mitterwill @comcast.net	reply to Mitterwill Re: help with netstat output I'll look for that but I am more noob to this than NoobProof... tonight I connected to Second Life on this machine and found some of those weird port connections established... like localhost 49523 to localhost 44125 then saw a weird one .49174 to .*. I tried closing those higher port numbers on NoobProof but then I couldn't get online. I should mention that my machine is not the main one connected to the router, but I guess that doesn't make a difference? I might just be paranoid after so many months of harassment - I know they have password hacks and they got through the computer I was using before (a PC) but I just want to get to where I know I am safe going online. Thanks for your help!
Mitterwill @comcast.net	to forum · permalink · 2009-11-20 21:26:06 ·
nwrickert sand groper Premium,MVM join:2004-09-04 Geneva, IL kudos:7 Reviews: ·AT&T U-Verse	If they are udp ports for localhost, then they are just for communication between processes on your own computer. It looked as if some were for netinfo, which is just a database for local use or between a network of related computers. Some operating systems use high port numbers for random ports, so there is no particular significance to that. -- AT&T Uverse; Zyxel NBG334W router (behind the 2wire gateway); openSuSE 11.0; firefox 3.0.15
	to forum · permalink · 2009-11-20 23:02:37 ·

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