Network Connection List with FPort v2.0

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∟Network Connection List with FPort v2.0

This section describes a free security protection tool from McAfee called FPort v2.0, which lists all network connections and their programs.

McAfee also offers another free security protection tool called Fport, which helps you to identify unknown open ports and their associated applications.

Fport v2.0 supports Windows NT4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Fport v2.0 reports all open TCP/IP and UDP ports and maps them to the owning application. This is the same information you would see using the 'netstat -an' command, but it also maps those ports to running processes with the PID, process name and path. Fport can be used to quickly identify unknown open ports and their associated applications.

Here is an example session of Fport v2.0:

C:\>fport
FPort v2.0 - TCP/IP Process to Port Mapper

Pid Process Port Proto Path
392 svchost -> 135 TCP C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
8 System -> 139 TCP
8 System -> 445 TCP
508 MSTask -> 1025 TCP C:\WINNT\system32\MSTask.exe
392 svchost -> 135 UDP C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
8 System -> 137 UDP
8 System -> 138 UDP
8 System -> 445 UDP
224 lsass -> 500 UDP C:\WINNT\system32\lsass.exe
212 services -> 1026 UDP C:\WINNT\system32\services.exe