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From: Stephen Worotynec <sw@smoky.ca>
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Subject: Re: Why are these ports open? (137-139,445)
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These ports are not open - they are, as the report says, filtered.

An upstream connectivity provider such as @Home is filtering them, and
nmap detects this.

Stephen Worotynec
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