[ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
John Matthews
jakewc2 at sky.com
Fri Apr 23 12:52:53 BST 2010
On 23/04/10 12:22, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 11:51 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>
>> On 23 April 2010 11:47, John Matthews<jakewc2 at sky.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis
>>> used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was
>>> talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside.
>>> How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the
>>> Terminal. Can somebody help?
>>>
>>>
>> nmap can do this.
>>
>> http://nmap.org/bennieston-tutorial/
>>
> netstat -l
>
> is another option that will give you an initial idea of what's open and
> listening.
>
> Bruno
>
>
>
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@Bruno......thank you for that.....Now that is interesting, I just
entered that into the Terminal, it seems that there is line upon line of
listening, but nothing saying open.
What does it all mean?
John
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