I'm new to systems administration and have a server running a website with HTTP (at port 80), HTTPS (at port 443) and SSH (at port 22).
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04.
I did an Nmap port scan using my personal laptop and other than these 3 ports, port 1111 was open too. This was the output:
1111/tcp open tcpwrapped
I then did:
sudo netstat -lntp | grep -F 1111
...and got the following output:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 21596/monit
Monit appears to be a monitoring tool in Ubuntu.
Should I be concerned about this?
How do I determine the purpose of port 1111?
How do I close it if I need to?
Answer
According to this reference:
Because protocol TCP port 1111 was flagged as a virus (colored red) does not mean that a virus is using port 1111, but that a Trojan or Virus has used this port in the past to communicate.
So, it could be a virus/trojan.
I would recommend you to use Net Activity Viewer to determine what process/service is keeping this port on listening state:
After this, Google the process name to see if there are any viruses related to this process and to this port.
Finally, if you think it is a virus, just follow the instructions guided here.
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