[X4U] iSight Mac to webcam PC

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Wed Nov 10 05:54:50 PST 2004


Yes, but I think that for many people those ports will show as closed, 
and iChatAV will still work.
So you aren't really demonstrating anything by showing him a portscan.

Stroller.


On Nov 10, 2004, at 4:37 am, Michael Elliott wrote:
>
> 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.



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