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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Outlook 2003 listening on udp/3088

From: Oliver Raymond (roottransientimages.com)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 15:29:10 CDT

hey, the tools are inbuilt and do indeed ship with the product:

netstat -ao

works on a windows xp (not 2000) box will show pid. promise!

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Ondrej Krajicek <krajicekics.muni.cz>
Reply-To: krajicekics.muni.cz
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 20:47:34 +0200

>Hello,
>
>I've just noticed (no, not by using tools which ship with Windows
XP[1], thank you Bill), that
>Outlook 2003 binds to UDP port 3088 on all interfaces and
listens. Quick Googling for it
>found no useful explanation.
>
>Does anyone know what is this good for? Another open port on my
(and thousands of others) Windows box
>really does not help anything, at least when it comes to
security. Anyway, I am using
>desktop firewall for access control, but knowing what this is and
how can it be disabled ;-)
>will make my sleep a bit better.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ondra
>
>PS: [1] ...netstat wouldn't do, it does not display pid (or
something).
>
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>|Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University Brno,
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