Hi Marek, Remove any third party port scanning software from the server (NT, IIS). This may be the reason to open the other ports. As per my knowledge there should two ports has to be opened on the IIS server. Or check out any trojan is installed on his machine. :-( Regards Dharmu Linux Expert nsecure software www.nsecure.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marek" <marekp@iafrica.com> To: <security-discuss@linuxsecurity.com> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:57 PM Subject: Nmap > Hi Colleagues > > A friend of mine asked me port scan his nt iis web box with my linux box > to see the results. i used nmap -v -sS -O x.x.x.x. i noticed that there > where "hundreds" of ports in the open state. what should i tell him is > the reason ? yeah i know he should be using apache. :-) > > Cheers > > Marek > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.