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Old 04-27-2009, 04:02 AM   #2 (permalink)
systemErr
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OS: Win XP Home SP2


Re: Constantly listening on a port - Security issue?

It can be huge. But that's why people use firewalls, to close those ports. Listening ports just wait to receive a signal to "go." Windows has open ports all the time though... just go to command prompt and type netstat -a to see.
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