Ibizajet A330 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 771 times:
I downloaded a fire wall today and it lists stuff that people try to do to my computer. This guy came up over 5 times in 5 hours. What does this mean?
A computer at cs66252-136.houston.rr.com has attempted an unsolicited connection to TCP port 80 on your computer.
TCP port 80 is commonly used by the "World Wide Web HTTP" service or program. HTTP is used to serve and request WWW pages.
The Source computer has scanned your computer for a Web Server. Personal Web Servers, while common, are not always secure. Some Personal Web Servers can be used to gain access to files on your computer. Many Trojan/Worm attacks spread via this port (such as the infamous Code Red). The firewall is protecting you from this threat.
IMissPiedmont From United States of America, joined May 2001, 6049 posts, RR: 50 Reply 1, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 755 times:
Wew! I thought you meant something else. It's most likely a site you have visited in the past with enabled cookies. They are probing. Disable all cookies right away.
I think a test for people to live in the southwest US should be no A/C in the car for a summer.
Ihadapheo From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 6024 posts, RR: 62 Reply 2, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 754 times:
Hello all, i suggest you go to this site (shields up) and run both the "test my shields" and "probe my ports" ( No Probe probing jokes please), it will tell you how vunerable (sp?) your machine is port 80 is quite important and is usually "open"
Ralgha From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 1614 posts, RR: 6 Reply 3, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 733 times:
Port 80 is not quite important and there usually isn't anything listening on it. Port 80 is the default port for http servers. Normal user's computers don't have http servers and therefore have no need for port 80.
Ihadapheo From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 6024 posts, RR: 62 Reply 4, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 731 times:
Ralgha, sorry about the port 80 thing ! but isn't port 80 related to ICQ, I have a vague memory of some ICQ program which keeps your port 80 open with a built in web-server, it's been a while so my memory might be fogged by time and old age. either way thanks for the clarification, still the shields up site is quite fun to do.
Yours
Ihadapheo
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JetService From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4798 posts, RR: 15 Reply 5, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 708 times:
Ibiz, that's the standard alert you receive when you've exceeded your share of porn downloads
Ralgha From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 1614 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 664 times:
ICQ has it's own webserver, which uses port 80 like all the other ones, but it's incredibly insecure and not many people use it. No one should. You can disable it in ICQ or just close the port with a firewall and nothing bad will happen.
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