Attack on Port 54178?

Submitted by k4tz on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 11:04

Question:

Firestarter has just detected an attempt to connect to my Port 54178.

Anyone know if this is an attempted attack? I as far as am aware have nothing running on that port?

 

Answer:

Most likely a random port scan. To make sure nothing is running on that port you can simply:

Code:
netstat -an|grep 54178

Hopefully this will return nothing, but if it does you can type the following to see what is actually running on that port.

Code:
sudo lsof -i :54178

My guess is you are fine and it's a random scan...

 

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