How to see what ports are open in my computer
To find out what ports are open or exposed, follow these steps: Start >Run >type "cmd" At the command line type " netstat -a > c:\portsStatus.txt " {enter) This will create a file called portsStatus.txt in c: drive. Open this file, you will get the list of each ports in your computer. Interesting, eh ? The list displayed shows "Listening ports" and established "Who is on the other end" connections to your computer. Also, Who is listening: netstat -an |find /i "listening" Who is established: netstat -an |find /i "established" Also, if yourcomputer's operating system is XP and want to see what are the open ports at this mements, then type:-> netstat -ao |find /i "listening" This will give the detail against some Process Ids (PID)s. Till now you have identified the list of ports that are in use at this moment. And somehow you smelled that one of the port is in use which really should not be (this may be ...