Security → Re: can anyone tell me what these ports are

ok I'll have to go get that netmon program,as for the net bios how do i go about closing those? thanks by the way:)

for the net bios how do i go about closing those? thanks by the way

You read the links and follow the step I already post above before you even asked the question.(Smile)

Just click on those links and read what they have to say..some even have walk through screen shot to give you the step by step proceedure to do it.

Good luck...looks like you are making progess and learning.

thanks again for all your help and I downloaded the net mon which is a great program very easy to use and very convienent as far as the ports go I'm working on it.

Consider also downloading that "whats happening" it is also so small and easy. It will give you an icon that is a "?" on your desk top. click on it any time and you can see every single program and .exe that is running on your pc and it will tell you in a "tree" every single .dll that is used for each. crtl+alt+del will only show you some of the thing running for it only has the stuff loaded at start up...but whats happening will show you everything that is currently running..even trojan and other worms that can sneek into your system...so that is your backup for a quick check...you will get used to seeing the normal thing...but when something strange show up you will know exactly what it is and then you can asked people here about something that is weird..not just calling it a trojan..etc...but rather call it by name like openme.exe and others...if you can do that..you are so much more ahead of the game and then with netmon you can see what is getting in and out with just on click..together..they will be invaluable to pin down problems...

There are more sophisticated proggies you can get that do the same or more...but these two are easy and fast.

also with netmon you can close ports that get STICKY and other features.

Both of these are real time monitoring tools. They will not and can not screw up you system or change anything..they are just fancy GUI's for the Windows enviornment so you do not have to hunt around your OS to find this data.

And they are great training tool to start out understanding what go on in the back ground when you surf the Net.