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[s. sengupta Profile Website]

1. Start Internet Explorer.

2. Type the following into the address bar and press Enter:

http://www.pronetworks.org:80

3. If home page opens in the browser, port 80 is open. If the connection timed out, traffic through port 80 may be blocked.

[dlt Profile]

Som, can you tell us a little bit more about why you should check to see if it's open?

[SCgone Profile YIM]

My port 80 isn't open, it's actually stealthed, not visible to the internet. When I'm doing this, all I'm doing is forcing Internet Explorer to open up port 80.

[Mac33 Profile]

and really for no reason if you are not using it!

[augie]

I don't know, just used Gibson's Stealth Up. Using ZA Pro, I was "stealthed" on port 80, even though that had to be where he was sending it through.?" I'll try another one soon.

[SCgone Profile YIM]

I don't know, just used Gibson's Stealth Up. Using ZA Pro, I was "stealthed" on port 80, even though that had to be where he was sending it through.?" I'll try another one soon.

You're still stealthed. GRC is probing port 80, but when you use the :80 on the end, it's just forcing IE to open up that port. IRC even has a script that opens 80 without you knowing.

[augie]

So how can we protect ourselves from even our own IRC?

[SCgone Profile YIM]

Sorry, I meant to say ICQ, which has a personal web page option that opens port 80.

[s. sengupta Profile Website]

Dlt wrote:-
Som, can you tell us a little bit more about why you should check to see if it's open?
Port 80 is that particular port which is most vulnerable to:-

711 trojan (Seven Eleven), AckCmd, BlueFire, Cafeini, Duddie, Executor, God Message, Intruzzo , Latinus, Lithium, MscanWorm, NerTe, Nimda, Noob, Optix Lite, Optix Pro , Power, Ramen, Remote Shell , Reverse WWW Tunnel Backdoor , RingZero, RTB 666, Scalper, Screen Cutter , Seeker, Slapper, Web Server CT , WebDownloader.

Moreover during Windows Product Activation (WPA) uses the following ports:

PORT Usage
80 for HTTP
443 for HTTPS

To test if port 443 is open:

1. Start Internet Explorer.

2. Type the following into the address bar and press Enter:

https://www.microsoft.com:443

3. If the Microsoft page opens in the browser, port 443 is open. If the connection timed out, traffic through port 443 may be blocked.

NOTE: WPA will issue Error 32777 if it can't connect to the Product Activation server.

NOTE: WPA will issue Error 32777 if you computer's date or time is incorrect.
I hope this will help.

[Weaver Profile Website]

I don't mean to step in (actually I do), but the starting post in this thread is inaccurrate. When you are typing in

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http://www.pro-networks.org:80


into your browser, you are creating a connection on Port 80 to pro-networks.org . Not yourself. In order to test if your own Port 80 is open, the best bet is going to be to go into a cmd (or command) window and type in

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netstat -an

The output will look like this:

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C:\>netstat -an

Active Connections

  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    0.0.0.0:1027           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:3009           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:5000           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    127.0.0.1:3001         0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    127.0.0.1:3002         0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    127.0.0.1:3003         0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    127.0.0.1:3008         0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    192.168.1.106:139      0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  UDP    0.0.0.0:135            *:*
  UDP    0.0.0.0:445            *:*
  UDP    0.0.0.0:500            *:*
  UDP    0.0.0.0:1026           *:*
  UDP    0.0.0.0:3004           *:*
  UDP    0.0.0.0:3017           *:*
  UDP    0.0.0.0:3179           *:*
  UDP    127.0.0.1:1900         *:*
  UDP    127.0.0.1:2234         *:*
  UDP    127.0.0.1:3005         *:*
  UDP    127.0.0.1:3016         *:*
  UDP    127.0.0.1:3096         *:*
  UDP    192.168.1.106:137      *:*
  UDP    192.168.1.106:138      *:*
  UDP    192.168.1.106:1900     *:*


The important thing to look for would be a line like this (which is not in the above)

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   TCP    0.0.0.0:80            0.0.0.0         LISTENING


Notice the :80, that is the reference to the Port number.

The only reasons you would ever have Port 80 opened on your machine is if you were running a webserver (HTTP operates on 80) or have a trojan that you don't know about (bad thing) operating on Port 80. The other acceptable reason would be if you were running some other service on Port 80, but you would not do that since all scanners scan Port 80.

To go over that one more time, since I know it is confusing. By typing in http://www.pro-networks.org:80 into your browser, you are not testing your own computer for Port 80 being open, but you are creating (testing) pro-networks.org 's computer for Port 80. Since there is a webserver on pro-networks.org , you will get this page.

Technically speaking, when you type in http://www.pro-networks.org:80 (you don't really need the :80 web browsers know that HTTP is on 80 and really do it for you) you are actually opening up a port somewhere between 1000 and 1100 ( assuming you are on a windows machine) so that pro-networks can talk back to you. Viewing a webpage is a two way street, both computers have to have ports open to communicate. Windows chooses somewhat randomly between 1000 and 1100 what to open when viewing sites.

Hope this confused a lot of people... Wait a minute...

-Weaver