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I am looking for a port scanner to provide a list of all open ports on my PC, and I need some app to help me shut down all ports that are not essential. Recommendations?

Hello Senex, welcome to SG.

You generally only need a port scanner to see open ports on a remote host. To see the open/listening ports on your end, you need to have it scanned from the internet (using our online security scan, for example), or, you can see listening/established ports using the "netstat" command in Command prompt.

There is a bit more info on how to do that in our FAQs here: https://www.speedguide.net/faq/how-to-f ... mputer-115

Thanks for the tips. So once I find out what ports are open, is there an app that can close all open ports at once? Basically I want to shut all down, then open ports individually as needed. Considering how many ports there are, I do not want to do the reverse...closing 7000+ ports one at a time would grate on my nerves!

That's what Firewalls are used for, to close listening/outgoing ports. The Windows Firewall can be used, or some type of external hardware firewall appliance. You can also simply stop the processes/services/servers running on your machine that keep listening ports open.

For incoming traffic, ports are usually blocked by NAT routers.

Nmap!!! "System Mapper", it is the most mainstream organize revelation and port scanner in the history.

It's a free and open source application utilized by framework heads, devops and arrange engineers for security reviewing on neighborhood and remote systems.



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