Andy N1YEW <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> what is port FICS and why is it on my Mellienum edition windows when i
> portscan it?

Andy:

Port 5000 is often used by Free Internet Chess Servers, so it's not
surprising that when your port-scanner found an open port 5000 on
your machine, it identified it as "FICS".

You're probably not running a chess server, though... So the port's
been opened by some other application.

-Andy


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