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SpannerITWks
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Re: Place your bets - Closed vs Stealthed

From your screenie you have Ports 135/139/445 open, so naturally i expect those to be probed and/or entered, with whatever consequences if nasties do get in !

I think that closed versus stealthed ports automatically create more attention by default, as they can be seen, whereas stealthed ports cannot. Whether this leads to any or continued scanning etc is another matter though.

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permalink · 2006-10-13 02:49:11 · Print · Reply to this

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Re: Place your bets - Closed vs Stealthed

said by SpannerITWks See Profile :

From your screenie you have Ports 135/139/445 open, so naturally i expect those to be probed and/or entered, with whatever consequences if nasties do get in !
You are right and as an example a lot of worms when they see TCP port 135 open try to fingerprint the OS via a scan to TCP port 5000 (UPNP), so just having 135 open would create more traffic just via these extra scans. So I configured the XP system to close the open ports, so this ought to be a fair fight now.

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permalink · 2006-10-13 02:58:02 · Print · Reply to this
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