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Old 03-06-2004, 20:07   #18
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Re: pop3 open?

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Originally Posted by greencreeper
Surely that's entirely dependant on the software providing POP services? Flakey software could well expose the host machine to an attack.

Heck of an assumption to make!
Tell you what - you show me evidence that a single server anywhere has been hacked into via pop3 on port 110 and I'll believe you.

Russ - in a dos box type "netstat -an" - you will get something like below;

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:1025 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:2401 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:3709 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:3765 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 10.27.2.5:139 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 10.27.2.5:1663 207.46.106.173:1863 ESTABLISHED
TCP 10.27.2.5:2701 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 10.27.2.5:13446 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:110 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:9090 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

Look for the LISTENING entry for Port 110 and tell us if the IP address is 127.0.0.1 (as above).
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