CurrPorts v1.20 Copyright (c) 2004 - 2007 Nir Sofer Web site: http://www.nirsoft.net

Description

Versions History

• Version 1.20:
  • Added support for filters.
  • The settings of CurrPorts utility is now saved to cfg file instead of using the Registry.
  • New command-line options.
  • You can now send the information to stdout by specifying an empty filename ("") in the command-line.
  • Added support for x64.
• Version 1.11:
  • Added support for process information in Vista.
• Version 1.10:
  • A tooltip is displayed when a string in a column is longer than the column length.
• Version 1.09:
  • /close command-line parameter - Close a connection from command-line
• Version 1.08:
  • Fixed columns order bug.
• Version 1.07:
  • New option: Resolve the remote IP addresses.
• Version 1.06:
  • New column: Process Attributes - Display the file attributes of the process (H for hidden, R for read-only, and so on)
  • Added support for working with IPNetInfo utility
• Version 1.05:
  • Fixed bug: identify process path starting with '\??\'
• Version 1.04:
  • Added more accelerator keys.
  • Added support for Windows XP visual styles.
• Version 1.03:
  • New Option: Display Listening
  • New Option: Display Established
  • New Option: Display Items With Unknown State
  • New Option: Display Items Without Remote Address
• Version 1.02:
  • Fixed bug: "Exception C0000005" message when running CurrPorts on Windows NT/2000 without administrator rights.
  • New column: "Process Services" - Displays the list of services of a process.
• Version 1.01:
  • The 'Copy Selected Items' option now copies the ports data in tab-delimited format, so you can instantly paste the data into your Excel worksheet.
  • Improvment in ports to process binding under Windows 2000. Process information is now also displayed under Windows NT.
• Version 1.00: First release.

System Requirements

Using CurrPorts

The main window of CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports. You can select one or more items, and then close the selected connections, copy the ports information to the clipboard, or save it to HTML/XML/Text file. If you don't want to view all available columns, or you want to change the order of the columns on the screen and in the files you save, select 'Choose Column' from the View menu, and select the desired columns and their order. In order to sort the list by specific column, click on the header of the desired column.

The Options Menu

• Display Listening: If this option is enabled, all listening ports are displayed.
• Display Established: If this option is enabled, all established connections are displayed.
• Display Closed: If this option is enabled, closed ports (with 'Time Wait', 'Close Wait', or 'Closed' state) are displayed.
• Display Items With Unknown State: If this option is enabled, items with unknown state (the state column is empty) are displayed.
• Display Items Without Remote Address: If this option is enabled, disconnected ports with no remote address are displayed.
• Display TCP Ports: If this option is disabled, TCP ports won't be displayed in the ports list.
• Display UDP Ports: If this option is disabled, UDP ports won't be displayed in the ports list.
• Mark Ports Of Unidentified Applications: If this option is enabled, all TCP/UDP ports that opened by applications with no version information and with no icons, are automatically marked with pink color. If you have on your system one or more ports marked with pink color, you should deeply check the processes that created these ports. It could be only an innocent application that simply doesn't contain any icons and version information (For example: the executables of MySQL and Oracle servers don't contain any icons or version info, so if you have MySQL/Oracle servers on your system, the ports they open will be marked.) , but it can also be a trojan or other unwanted application that infiltrated into your system.
• Mark New/Modified Ports: If this option is enabled, each time the ports list is refreshed, all newly added ports and existing ports with changes are marked with green color.
• Auto Refresh: Allows you to automatically refresh the opened ports list each 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10 seconds.
• Sort On Auto Refresh If this option is enabled, the entire ports list is sorted each time that the list is refreshed automatically. Otherwise, new/modified ports are added to the bottom of the list.

Using Filters

In the filters dialog-box, you can add one or more filter strings (separated by spaces, semicolon, or CRLF) in the following syntax:
[include | exclude] : [local | remote | both | process] : [tcp | udp | tcpudp] : [IP Range | Ports Range]

Here's some examples that demonstrate how to create a filter string:

• Display only packets with remote tcp port 80 (Web sites):
  include:remote:tcp:80
• Display only packets with remote tcp port 80 (Web sites) and udp port 53 (DNS):
  include:remote:tcp:80
  include:remote:udp:53
• Display only packets originated from the following IP address range: 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.100:
  include:remote:tcpudp:192.168.0.1-192.168.0.100
• Display only TCP and UDP packets that use the following port range: 53 - 139:
  include:both:tcpudp:53-139
• Filter most BitTorrent packets (port 6881):
  exclude:both:tcpupd:6881
• Display only the opened ports of FireFox browser:
  include:process:firefox.exe

Integration with IPNetInfo utility

1. Download and run the latest version of IPNetInfo utility. (If you have IPNetInfo with version prior to v1.06, you must download the newer version.)
2. Select the desired connections, and then choose "IPNetInfo" from the File menu (or simply click Ctrl+I).
3. IPNetInfo will retrieve the information about remove IP addresses of the selected connections.

Command-Line Options

Here's some examples:

• Save all opened TCP/IP ports created by Internet Explorer browser to HTML file:
  cports.exe /filter "include:process:iexplore" /shtml "c:\temp\ports.html"
• Add all opened ports information to ports.txt (as tab-delimited text file). This example only works when running it from a command-prompt window.
  cports.exe /stab "" >> c:\temp\cports1.txt
• Start CurrPorts with filter that will only display the opened ports of Internet Explorer and FireFox:
  cports.exe /filter "include:process:firefox;include:process:iexplore"

Closing a Connection From Command-Line

For each parameter, you can specify "*" in order to include all ports or addresses.
Examples:

• Close all connections with remote port 80 and remote address 192.168.1.10:
  /close * * 192.168.1.10 80
• Close all connections with remote port 80 (for all remote addresses):
  /close * * * 80
• Close all connections to remote address 192.168.20.30:
  /close * * 192.168.20.30 *
• Close all connections with local port 80:
  /close * 80 * *

Translating CurrPorts To Another Language

1. Run CurrPorts with /savelangfile parameter:
   cports.exe /savelangfile
   A file named cports_lng.ini will be created in the folder of CurrPorts utility.
2. Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
3. Translate all menus, dialog-boxes, and string entries to the desired language.
4. After you finish the translation, Run CurrPorts, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
   If you want to run CurrPorts without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.

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