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    Unhappy Connections to an unknown port

    Hi All,

    I'm getting email logs from my router tellling me that a source on the internet is trying to connect to my router on port 45399. Does anyone know what this port is and what it does? Been searching the net and cannot find the answer?

    The source IP and port address changes all the time but on my side I've picked destination port numbers 45399, 61306

    Eg.

    UDP Packet - Source:XXX.XXX.XXX.227,50250 Destination:XXX.XXX.XXX.66,45399 - [DOS]
    TCP Packet - Source:XXX.XXX.XXX.132,6757 Destination:XXX.XXX.XXX.66,45399 - [DOS]

    What does this mean and how do I stop it? Is it media streaming happening via you tube perhaps?

    Thanks for help
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    Hi Brad,

    As of 22 March 2010 all those ports were either registered but unassigned, or dynamic/private.

    I looked at a few malware port listings and none of them showed up there either.

    I do not believe that it has anything to do with Youtube, who would use port 80 I would guess?

    You might find out more if you look up the IP addresses of the source machines?

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    @Nihil

    ...thanks for feedback. I would check the source but the source IP keeps changing. I have a feeling that its malware running. The client uses bit torrent. He says he has stopped his downloads but I think it might still be running in the background.

    any other ideas?
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    scratch and sniff...

    seriously... run ur fav packet sniffer and take a look at the traffic.
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    My IPcop firewall gets attempts on those ports all the time (a lot of attempts in a short time period, from multiple IP address, from multiple countries). I suspect it's some botnet looking for machines infected with a certain malware that listens on those ports, or probably background noise. I haven't torrented in months.

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