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ports 1025 and 1080 open necessary?
Name: arun Date: September 28, 2002 at 01:48:14 Pacific OS: win2k CPU/Ram: 600Mhz
Comment:
hi, i have a win2k box at home and was wondering if ports 1025 and 1080 have to be open or can they be closed using a firewall rule? what r these ports used for and what is the ad/disad of opening/closing them? thanks in advance arun
Name: Norm Date: September 28, 2002 at 02:40:52 Pacific
Reply:
Port 1080; SOCKS Proxy Protocol provides a secure proxy data channel between two computers. SOCKS allows many computers behind a firewall to access the Internet without actually being on the Internet themselves.
Port 1025; Blackjack
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Response Number 2
Name: arun Date: September 28, 2002 at 03:19:19 Pacific
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Port 1025; Blackjack - can u pls explain? and if am running a firewall and block port 1080 is that good or bad????
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Response Number 3
Name: Norm Date: September 28, 2002 at 07:19:52 Pacific
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