Geek Software of the Week: CurrPorts!

A neat utility to see what ports are open on your system!

CurrPorts v2.02 – Monitoring Opened TCP/IP network ports / connections

• “Network Inventory – automated agent-free network inventory software. Network Inventory Advisor automatically discovers all network assets (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, SNMP-powered devices & more), scans them and builds network inventory reports.
• SmartSniff – Capture TCP/IP packets on your network adapter
• SocketSniff – Windows Sockets (WinSock) Sniffer

CurrPorts is network monitoring software that displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.

In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file.

CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications (Applications without version information and icons)”