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by rirwin69

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How do I shut down or turn off specific ports?

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by dmiles

There are a number of ways to close ports,using a firewall,or shutting down the services will close the port that is being used.
On Win2k and XP (not sure about others) there is basic TCP/IP filtering available.

Go:

Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Open properties page for appropriate connection -> Open properties for TCP/IP -> Advanced -> Options tab -> Double click TCP/IP Filtering

In this window you can configure basic port and protocol filtering.

Also see the following site
www.grc.com

by rirwin69

There are 65,000 and some ports. Do you have to specify which ones to have closed and open?

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