A standard Windows operating system has a number of ports open after installation. Some of these ports are needed for the system to function properly while others might not. These ports can pose a security risk as every open port on a system might be an entry point for a malicious user. A port basically [...]

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Connection Monitor is a portable realtime network connection monitor for the Windows operating system. It is basically an alternative to popular portable application Curr Ports or Open Ports which is also displaying the TCP / IP network connections in realtime. Connection Monitor will display all network connections (incoming and outgoing) upon startup listing locale and [...]

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Fport is a portable command line utility that will report all open TCP and UDP ports to the user. The port analyzer maps each open port to an application to distinguish itself from the netstat -an command in Windows which otherwise would provide the same amount of information. What this means is that Fport will [...]

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Open Ports displays all open TCP and UPD ports using a cli (command line interface). We all know the netstat command that lists all tcp and udp connections (netstat -an). The problem with this is that it does not show the application that uses the ports listed there. Open Ports lists the applications that use the ports which makes it easier to identify applications that should not be connected to the internet at all.

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