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March 4th, 2007, 07:25 PM
#1
interesting port
I used nmapfe to scan a machine on my lan and the results have made me a tad bit concerned. Its a windows xp home box and it is showing that port 139 and 135 are both open. I do have file and printer sharing turned off and thought that those should have not shown up. Does anyone know if that is something that I should be worried about? The scan only worked when coming across my lan, the natted firewall stopped it from outside the lan, whew.
EDIT: spell check would be a good thing.
Last edited by shatteredsoul; March 4th, 2007 at 09:38 PM.
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March 4th, 2007, 08:55 PM
#2
Enable Windows firewall and nothing will show up in nmap. But if you're
inside a natted firewall, no need to worry unless it's unsecured or vulnerable
wireless router. Or if you've got some untrusted users on your side of
the NAT.
Last edited by brokencrow; March 4th, 2007 at 08:57 PM.
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” — Will Rogers
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March 4th, 2007, 09:41 PM
#3
The windows firewall is enabled. I didn't see anything in the exception list that would open those ports. The machine comes up clean with Asquared and with hyjackthis. I believe I would rather be paranoid and just wipe the drive and start over though. The machine has been running online for over a year and a half. I'm making backups as I type.
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March 5th, 2007, 02:25 AM
#4
FNR'ing (flatten and reload) an hdd every year or two is not bad idea, in the whole scheme of things.
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” — Will Rogers
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