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I ran a firewall test, and it warned me that TCP Port 1025 is open for whatever reason. I checked my firewall settings, I can't see why it would be open. I ran virus/spyware scans, and came up with nothing. Anyone have any ideas? My firewall is Sygate Personal Pro if that helps.

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Also, one of my svchost.exe processes is using more memory than usual. It peaks at around 85,000K, when I've never had it go above 40,000. I dunno if it's somehow related, but I figured I'd throw out that bit of info.

Well, I disabled all the non-essential services running under that svchost.exe, including themes, but mem usage only dropped by about 3 MB. Anyways, the svchost problem is secondary. What I really want to know is why port 1025 is open instead of being stealthed by Sygate. I googled it and came up with nothing helpful. I'm at a loss here. I'm half-tempted to go back to Windows Firewall.

  Renshaw said:

disable this service if not used..

"Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service"

That serice users that port.

RPC should never be disabled; it is critical to Windows booting up.

Edit: It seems RPC does use that port, but I can't pinpoint what for.

Edited by John

Port 1025 can be used by any number of services.

Task scheduler is one example. If you are running

a fax app like Winfax then the NDISWan or NDISTapi

services will open the first available port above 1023

listening for telephony traffic. This is usually port 1025.

The following is a really good site that I have used for

years. It explains what ports are opened by which

applications and how to close them.

http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/breves/min_srv_res_win.en.html

Well, I decided to ditch my AV/Firewall software for my copy of Norton Internet Security 2006 that I had lying around. Amazingly enough, everything seems to have been fixed. The svchost.exe that was peaking at 80,000K mem usage is back down to around 45,000, and port 1025 is stealthed. Ironic how Norton actually solved my problems instead of making them worse.

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