How To Close Open Ports

Ports are the Application specific End points which provide connections in a operating system. When you are connected to internet each network process use a different port. For yahoo messenger uses a different port,your browser uses a different port to establish a connection with network.

To keep our self save from various kind of attacks we need to close our open ports.

To close open Ports..Here's The Procedure..

• Go To Start And Then Run.
• Type "netsh firewall delete portopening TCP PORTNUMBER" without Quotes and PORTNUMBER is the Number of your port which you want to close. If you want to close PORTNUMBER 8080 Then the command to close PORT 8080 is.
      netsh firewall delete portopening TCP 8080.
• Now Press enter and Your are done..

If you are interested in coding then you can try using .vbs and .bat files too.

• Vbs Script to close open ports..Just copy and paste below coding to notepad file and save as PortCloser.vbs

             set ss = createobject("wscript.shell")
             set ws = wscript
             dim PORT
             PORT = InputBox("Enter the port you wish to close:")
             ss.run "netsh.exe"
             ws.sleep 1000
             ss.sendkeys "firewall delete portopening TCP " & PORT
             ss.sendkeys "{enter}"
             ws.sleep 500
             'ss.sendkeys "exit"
             'ss.sendkeys "{enter}"

• .BAT Script to close open ports..Just copy and paste below coding to notepad file and save as PortCloser.bat

             @echo off
             title Port Closer
             echo Port Closer
             echo.
             set /p port=Type the port number you wish to close here:
             netsh firewall delete portopening TCP %port%
             msg /w * Port %port% has been closed.
             exit