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How do you look for open ports on a network?

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For both Windows and Linux, the command is 'netstat'. To find out if you have any open ports (all PCs do to some extent), you can do a 'netstat -na' and look for any lines that have the word "LISTEN" in the last column.

In Linux, you can do a 'netstat -na | grep LISTEN' to only view those ports, disregarding the others.

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