RE: PORT # Question... Am I being hacked ?

Thanks Paul :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:15 PM
To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
Subject: Re: PORT # Question... Am I being hacked ?


Someone once told me that it takes a small mind to insist that there is only
one way to spell a word.:-))

I'm not sure exactly what the additional number is for, so I just think of
them as a sort of sub-port number, like an apartment number within a
building.

Paul Nelson
Braxton-Reed, Inc.
630-327-8665 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
pnelson@braxton-reed.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@iquest.net>
To: <midrange-nontech@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: RE: PORT # Question... Am I being hacked ?


> Paul,
>
> It should tell you what kind of day I am having that I misspell my on name
> in that last reply :-)
>
> I notice that on the 2 servers I do hit for email, they both show :pop3 so
> what is the :1214 at the end of the rr address ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:31 PM
> To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: PORT # Question... Am I being hacked ?
>
>
> Are you receiving inbound mail to your machine? It's possible that someone
> using carolina.rr.com as their ISP is sending mail to someone in your
> organization. If you're running Domino on your system, just for grins use
> the Domino console sometime to see the activity going both ways.
>
> Paul Nelson
> Braxton-Reed, Inc.
> 630-327-8665 Cell
> 708-923-7354 Home
> pnelson@braxton-reed.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@iquest.net>
> To: "Midrange-Nontech" <midrange-nontech@midrange.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:59 AM
> Subject: PORT # Question... Am I being hacked ?
>
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I am running Windows NT and ran a Netstat command and among stuff that
> does
> > NOT worry me is the following that DOES:
> >
> > ProTo Local Address Foreign Address State
> >
> > TCP gr30:2342 clt74-35-022.carolina.rr.com:1214 ESTABLISHED
> >
> > the local address is my PC's name.
> >
> > is the :2342 a Port # - if so, what is it for ?
> > is the :1214 a Port # - if so, what is it for ?
> >
> > is someone using Road Runner to try and hack me ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chuck
> >
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