[Nottingham] Paranoid already

Jon Masters nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Aug 18 11:12:00 2003


On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Alex Herington wrote:

> I also find running "netstat -tpan" pretty useful as it'll tell you which
> program is listening on which port and detail any active connections.
> Particularly useful for checking for backdoors and other nasties :)

It is useful until your box is r00ted at which point running nmap,
preferably from another host pays off. Netstat can easily lie. :-).

Jon.