IE trying to open Port 1059 ???

My firewall stopped IE in an attempt to connect to a webpage.

I had allowed the typical ports for DNS, DHCP, HTTP, and FTP too, so it should have been alright.

On close analysis it turned out that IE was attempting to reach out on a port I have no reference for: port 1059.

What is it for?

Do I have a trojan linked to IE?

Or, is it a MS quirk I should not worry about?


TIA

 

You'll find a listing of ports here.

 

But in this case it won't help you much since you will see

nimreg 1059/tcp
nimreg 1059/udp

and that almost certainly isn't anything you have on your PC.

AFAIK, only ports 0 - 1023 are actually managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Others were at one time assigned to some service or provider but may well be reused at this point.

However, I would be very wary of any service attempting to reuse one of them since there are a huge number of unassigned ports and good programming practice would be to avoid re-use of the assigned ones - even if they were no longer in common use.

Inzider (free) will give you lots more information if you are running an NT system (NT/2K/XP). I don't even know if it will work on Win9x/ME systems or if not, what an equiv. tool would be. Sysinternals has a couple that might help as well. Free. Check out TCPView v1.11 and TDImon v1.01. There are problbly others.

Sorry I couldn't give you a definitive answer on this but without more info, it just isn't possible.

 

Thank you!

I had already used both programs, but the fog is still thick. They don't help identify which process is to blame.

I have also noticed that a few streaming media players' "agents" were on the boot at startup list. Yet, they weren't supposed to call home, and packets were sent as IE attempted to connect.

If ZoneAlarm figures it's IE itself and I block them, IE won't work. Yet, even letting IE send out any sort of garbage I still get alerts for other ports, from unknown sources.

It's not a lot of traffic, more like a ping-like packet, like hi mom i'm ok, yet I find it annoying not to know who's doing what on my machine.

I'll whois the urls and I'll ask some sysops to account for their creatures

BR

Filippo

 

Excellent idea. Let us know what you find out.