Unwanted ports are opened

Question

Hi All,

I have turned on firewall for all the profiles, blocked inbound and allowed outbound connections. I have created a inbound rule and allowed only few ports numbers which are required. But when I do port scanning I see there are extra ports opened so I wanted to know whether these ports are opened on outbound communications or in inbound.

Below are the ports which are not included in the inbound rule which I have created but I still get these in the reports.

111
135
139
445
1556
5504
13724
13782
49666
49667
49679
49680

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello @Fahrid F

Kindly note that the ports are opened on the inbound to the machine you are scanning.

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Answer 2

turned on firewall for all the profiles

Only one profile will be active per connection.

blocked inbound and allowed outbound connections

Should have been the default

when I do port scanning

This sounds like something is listening on these port on your server?

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Answer 3

below are the port which are listening

From cmd.exe
netstat -aon
then using the PID lookup in Task Manager\Processes tab for the process responsible.

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