Re: Outlook 2003 listening on udp/3088

["Oliver Raymond" <root () transientimages com>]

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 <krajicek () ics muni cz>
Reply-To: krajicek () ics 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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