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<jake...@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 > > > >
@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 -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
