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Risks of Open Ports?

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Risks of Open Ports?

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What are the risks to me as the supporter if I have ports open on my firewall? Let's say I forward port 5500 to my machine. When I'm not using UltraVNC SC to support my clients, what risk is there to me?
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Re: Risks of Open Ports?

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It is not the port that's the risk, but the application runnning on that port.

If no other program is using port 5500, no risk.

The problem is only when your PC get infected by a virus or trojan, that mal program could use any open port to communicate with his master...
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Re: Risks of Open Ports?

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Very cool.

Are there any known security holes where a listening viewer could be used to compromise the supporter's pc?
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