One of the things that I to regularly on all of my computer systems is to check each system’s open TCP and UDP ports. It is a security precaution to make sure that only needed ports are listening, and that all other ports are closed to reduce the chance of a successful attack. I have [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

As promised (in my article “How do I find my network information in Linux?“) I am going to introduce you to the netstat command. This command is a very useful tool for discovering networking information such as routing tables, network connections, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships. But it’s not quite as simple to [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

uTorrent is one of the most popular Bittorrent clients. It is small, lightweight and offers a good performance out of the box. The currently active branches of uTorrent is version 1.8x which is receiving regular updates from the developers. The first uTorrent 2.0 Beta hit the forum a few days ago. This version is currently [...]

Categories: P2p

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 [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows