I am a novice on the computer compared to all of you gentlemen and ladies so, if you would, please tell me, how do you "watch the ports of your computer". Thanks!
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You utilize a hardware firewall, software firewall, and if you run on the WIN9x kernel, unbind the TCPIP stack. See Gibson Research, and get rid of the WIN9x kernel. And never install the virus called AOL.
Well, I wrote a little program that monitors the ports on my computer and keeps a record of attempted accesses along with the data transmitted. I am sure there are many commercial (and freeware) programs that do the same thing (and much more) but I haven't really investigated this - I guess I am kinda a do-it-yourself sort of guy when it comes to computers.
One thing you can do to make sure you don't have any unwanted services running on any of your ports (i.e. potential security holes) is to go to https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 and have it scan your machine.