How do you close an open Port?

You guys are good. Without knowing anything about that comp, OS,security measures and everything else, you guys are telling how to close ports......hmmmmm.

Who's been handing out the ESP pills again? j/k

;)

This is a very interesting thread to me...I just installed a firewall (Zone Alarm) last night, and have noticed that a LOT of the stuff it's blocking is people trying to connect to port 6346. It's not letting anyone in, so I'm not too concerned, but I have been going to a WHOIS site and checking the IP addresses. So far it's just "internet noise" as far as I can tell, but it has been a real eye-opener for me as to what is going on behind the scenes.

You mean these ESP pills aren't good? Damn I bought a whole bunch. :)

Lissa,
It's Matt. to close an open port you have to close the program that's holding the port open. The bad part can be FINDING what programs are holding what ports open...I believe there's a program call TCPView Pro than can do this. I think you can download a trail version of it :)

I have try'd all the scans again today it is now saying it is all in stealth mode!!!!!!!
Yesterday it wasn't...hhhmm. Yesterday when i re-loaded all that i had into my comp it was all in order.Windows 98 all ready to go, i had it divided into 6 drives to save what I in the event of this happening again. I have a 20 gig hard drive with maximum space left (over 80%)
It is gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It now reads that I have a 4.5 gig, all of the extra drives are gone to!!!!!!!!!D, E and F ARE GONE .My hard drive is Gone! Ihave already try'd the reboot disk and so many things I cant get any of it back! Can I even get it back? Some body has my ISp # I' bet and they are getting off on skrewing me around. All that work is gone WHAT DO I DO? Any body have a clue?cause I don't .
OS iswin 98 , I am using norton firewall and anti virus, I have ad-aware on the ball and Swat-it! Where's my hard drive?

If all else fails, try the magical cure, DUCT TAPE.....That stuff works like you wouldn't believe. Hey, if it works on a leaky faucet or a rusted out car door, or a broken chair, you never know right?

I'll just slap it all over my tower and whammo.....no more problems :P

Update
The little kiddie that Trojaned Mellissa has taken to portscanning her now. I traced him down to a Polish ISP. Mellissa's haing her IP rotated tomorrow so this kiddie will not be a problem much longer :)

:3pow: Script Kiddies