Updating services on remote server

rogee · 03-09-2006, 05:50 PM

Another noob question:P

I port scan my root server and notice alot of vulns so im going to try and secure my server.The thing is i have plesk running and i wanted to know how i would go about updating services, and without affecting my plesk install.Many many thanks for the assistance.

Brian1 · 03-09-2006, 06:50 PM

How did you port scan? From the machine itself or from and outside source?

I would use one the portscanning websites out there like http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe/

Scanning from the machine itself will more than likely show many open ports since scanning the localhost. If machine is behind a firewall router then the remote scanner sites will only be able to scan the router itself unless you have ports forwarded through or a dmz setup.

Brian1