How to close ports

When my computer becomes slow, I use to check connections established. In command prompt /Start button — Run —type  CMD — Enter/ I type command ‘netstat -a‘ and press enter.

It gives all the connections in my computer. Especcialy attention I pay to those marked as ESTABLISHED. Some of them are with my Skype friends or Internet sites I have connected.

 But if I close all the programs running /like Skype, IE, games, torrents, etc/ there are still some established connections with unknown sites in Germany, Russia, all over the world. Near them is written the port. It is known that malicious software uses higher ports number /bigger than 10000/ and ‘good’ programs use small numbered ports.

One way to close a port is to terminate the process /program/ that has opened it.  But if you don’t know the program or someone is using trojans to connect with you, the other way is to use a program to close those ports.

There are many programs for scanning and closing ports. I found this http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html an use it from time to time. It is free. I don’t know the autors but think it is a good program for non proffessionalists like me. If you have better programs in mind, please share their URL.

Internet Explorer Not Responding problem resolved

If you receive that message, you may try the following 2 things.

1. You may be have too many IE windows opened – close them and try to load a page.

Also may clean the IE cache.

2. Go to registry editor: Start button –> Run –> Regedit

find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\BrowserHelper Objects

and delete all the keys /like folders/ here.

Press F5 to refresh registries.

Then try to load a webpage in IE.

IE restrictions – how to open URL

In many schools, computer clubs and offices admins have set restrictions about using Internet explorer so people cannot browse the Internet.

Here is a simple method to open any URL:

Open any Windows program, for example calculator.exe.

Click F1 on keyboard to open the help menu.

Now click with right mouse button on titlebar.

jump to url

Click ‘Jump to URL…’ submenu.

In the new dialog window type your web address and the webpage is opened in the right part of the help.

Internet explorer cannot open the internet site. Operation aborted

I receive this error message many times a day as I browse the Internet. I use IE6.

I did not paid attention, just reloaded the page to solve problem.

Please see the next post with solution of the problem /edited./

Yesterday  I decided to search the web for similar problems.

I was surprised to find out that it is a Microsoft IE bug, they recognised this oh their page.

But on MS pagebug  is only description and advices for the  web developers how to avoid this on their pages using CSS and JavaScripts.  No single word about IE users – what causes the problem. 

I found many web pages commenting this problem. But there were same programming solutions for developers.

Even Google mail can cause this error message! You can check this  by visiting htpp://mail.google.com/mail/ . If you have my IE problem, the error message will appear.

The error message makes many people to change their browsers with FF.

This seems to be one of the worst MS bugs ever!

So for my great regret I have to say – NO solution for this problem for now. /edited/

Just wait for Microsoft to release some update for it.

Edit: see the next post with solution!