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How to close a port
Name: ectoplasme Date: February 7, 2005 at 20:39:06 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: PII 450/256
Comment:
I did a netstat and found out the adress ik61011.ikoula.com:56458 was connected to my computer on port 1050. I don't know them and I want to close the port. How do I do that?
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: February 7, 2005 at 22:10:37 Pacific
Reply:
Zone Alarm?
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Response Number 2
Name: ectoplasme Date: February 7, 2005 at 22:52:18 Pacific
Reply:
I just installed Zone Alarm. Everything is fine now. I didn't think ZA would do the job since I already had a firewall : McAfee desktop firewall, but ZA is obviously better.
Summary: The easy way would be to get either a router with a firewall to block access to it, or use a software firewall like zonealarm, which will tell you anytime a program on your system tries to open a port...
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