Comments on: Free Port Analyzers – Defeat Spyware And Botware

By: manish

manish — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:53:35 +0000

thanks boss………………………

By: Bill Mullins

Bill Mullins — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:00:09 +0000

Hey Nutz,

Thanks for the great comment and for adding the kind of info we can all benefit from.

Regards,

Bill

By: Nutz

Nutz — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:44:42 +0000

Hi Bill,

It is an easy way to watch connections leaving your pc and will indeed catch some malware.

The issue is the stealthy malware can hide connections and themselves from these tools.
In cases of evil browser plugins it will also appear like the application is IE.

Advanced modern bot nets are using P2P like infrastructure for command and control and in those cases you will just see some amounts of connections to 12345.dsl.isp.com that look no different tan any instant messenger.

When i was younger i used to use this tool to freak out new ICQ contacts by asking them what the weather was like in x.

By: Bii Mullins

Bii Mullins — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:44:14 +0000

Hey Aibek,

Thanks for the comment. There’s something pretty neat about hearing from you guys!

By: Aibek

Aibek — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:26:05 +0000

Cool post Bill, I especially like the Currports app. Next time my girlfreind IMs me about the “weird things” going on with her system i will ask her for that Currports HTML report.

By: Bill Mullins

Bill Mullins — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:39:18 +0000

Hey Karl,

Thanks for the comment; appreciate it from a fellow geek!

By: AskTheAdmin | Karl Gechlik

AskTheAdmin | Karl Gechlik — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:11:07 +0000

I use this on a daily basis. Great tip Bill.

By: Bill Mullins

Bill Mullins — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:01:38 +0000

Hey Brainiac,

Glad you found the info worthwhile. Thanks for the comment.

By: Brainiac

Brainiac — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:54:37 +0000

Thanks for the excellent article…at firts I found it a bit overwheling but once I tried it myself it turned out to be quite simple…Thanks