How to get ports "stealth-ed"?

[slam]

Hi
(it's me, leClerc ;-)-slammer_JvA, for some reason having difficulty loggin on...grr :-)

After passing all PC Flank tests, I'm 'stuck' with a tiny question:

Only 2 ports are not "stelalth" but "closed", namely ports 1080 and 3128

I bet for some reason I have closed them 'myself' (or some little appl. I use), in one of many security-deeds. Dunno anymore...

I'm using Sygate FW; is there a way to get those ports invisible again as well?
If so, I'll be eager to know - becoming the security-fanatic I am, haha

TIA

Slam

[BlitzenZeus]

Do you have any programs listening on those ports? Can you check that with your firewall, if not you can use the netstat command from the command prompt.

Can you make a rule to block those two ports to see if it makes any difference? I had a isp that used to block 1080, and it caused problems with some of my connections since the range of 1024-5000 is used at random, so that might be your issue also unless you have a hardware router.