Lan port occupied by anonymous program

Hi folks,

Have a system here with LAN port occupied by anonymous program. Port cannot be disabled or enabled, just message saying port is being used by another program. I cannot see any other active programs.

Any ideas ?

Neil...............

 

Hi, I'll give this a short and see what happens.

Thanks PeteC.

Neil............

 

Where are you looking that you are seeing the information?

One port that is open by default is for uPnP (universal Plug and Play).

If you want all the ports closed (actually stealthed) without having to discover why and do it manually is to get Zonealarm. Zonealarm can be a bit of headache sometimes though if you don't configure it correctly.

Manually, find out about cloaking the port by redirecting probes to an inactive IP address (eg 127.0.0.1).

Matt