ports?

[corpse]

When I log on to one of my accounts I get this message

ListenOnPort(),bind()failed



XP Home. sp3, AVG, defender.

I know its not much to go on, but if someone could help. I have googled it but didnt get the results I expected or understood.

[Tormentius]

Accounts for what? More info is needed to help you out.

[corpse]

Sorry, just a plain user account with admin priviledges. The computer has 3 or 4 user accounts, all admin. Nothing special abouit any of them.

[^misantropia^]

Some application is trying to bind to a privileged port (port no <= 1024, I think it's the same on Windows). Now the question is: which application?

[^misantropia^]

Either that, or it is trying to bind to a port that is already in use. `netstat` is your friend here.

[corpse]

OK, I googled netstat and found some stuff like -a and -r

-a displays all connections and listening ports

and -r displays router table

I have a router with several other computers.

Am I best here to run the -a and I'm guessing it will show all computers and ports etc.

Then I can figure out where the conflict is?

[^misantropia^]

Yep, you will want to know what applications are listening on what ports, so do `netstat -a -b`.

Though you still need to know what application is producing the error message from your original post.

[corpse]

Thank you, I will give this a try.

[corpse]

Not sure if this is related, but when I first started getting this message, I was also getting an error 403 [forbidden] when trying to open Internet explorer....home page msn.com

I didnt put this in at first because this has gone away on its own.

[^misantropia^]

You're not running some kind of proxy, are you?

[axbaby]

firewall problem?
have you recently un-installed a firewall ,if so it may still be causing havoc.

[corpse]

Thanks for the replies. Not sure what it was. All I ended up doing was msconfig and disabled everything except antivirus. That worked