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Old 04-27-2009, 02:35 PM   #4 (permalink)
godsstigma
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Re: Constantly listening on a port - Security issue?

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Originally Posted by systemErr View Post
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.
Ok, so I also use RealVNC that is constantly listening on a port for a connection. Isn' t this just as vulnerable?


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Truthfully, if your program doesn't have things like buffer overflow vulnerabilities, it's not that big a threat. After all, that's how any server application runs, right?
I am using a function library for the TCP connections that was written in C++.
I know that C++ is notorious for buffer overflow. I do not know C++. what do you think?
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