Because he is paranoid. But if I can scan the ports (or have him scan them and then dump the results to me in email) I can show him EXACTLY what the problem is. Michael On Nov 07, 2004, at 7:40 AM, Stroller wrote: > There is a bit more to it than this, but the easiest thing is just for > your brother-in-law to open the appropriate ports in his firewall > (which you'll undoubtedly have found posted many other places on the > net). I don't see any risk to this, as the only service that should be > listening on those ports is AIM.