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.