naughty, there maybe a couple of reasons you may not be able to install a firewall, or other software or close open ports. You said in an earler post you were not running legal copies of your OS. Solving other open ports prblems may also be hampered by the fact that it appears you do not have propper premissions to access your your OS, or if you attempted to download patches for a hacked version of Windows M$ knows just about all of the cracked OS versions out there and may have disabled parts of your system files so they cannot be changed. Warez versions of anything have all sorts of bugs and fixing them is often impossible, or a waste of time. Often faster, less expensive to buy ligit versions of OS's andother software then find work arounds for Warez copies. Now don't get me wrong not down on you or other users that use Warez just be aware your version is not going to react to common fixes that work on a ligit version of the software. Such are the pit falls of free and is it really free when your system is taken over?