Ports 135, 5000, 1025.

OS: XP pro sp1
I scanned myself (nmap) and noticed I have these ports open:

135/tcp msrpc
1025/tcp NFS-or-IIS
5000/tcp UPnP

I do not want to share anything to anyone on my network. and I do not care for UPnP, how do I close these ports? Any way besides a firewall (turning the processes off, are they needed)?

Well, your port 135 is the one that Blaster went after, so you should be sure your machine is not vulnerable. Universal plug -n- pray is also a problematic port, there are some serious security vulnerabilities. Go here www.grc.com and you can scan and find out about the different ports, vulnerabilities, etc.

You could turn off the services, but you may run into situations where you may need it. The only one I'm not familiar with is port 1025.

Why not use a firewall? It does a much better job of securing you computer than just turning off services.

Free firewall
www.zonelabs.com

I use Outpost.

I am trying to close down all services I do not need and was just wondering if those were possible to close without a firewall (which services).

Thanks.

The GRC site has several freeware tools that will close the different services/ports for you.

With Sygate Personal Firewall 5.5,
Open the Advanced Options, click ADD, then goto PORTS AND PROTOCOLS, Select TCP, two options now appear, in LOCAL box type in 1025 and leave Remote box clear, in the Traffic Direction box select Incomming. Click OK , then OK again...
goto URL do the shields up, test ur computer, and then thank me... & youre welcome.
carry on soldiers
Swp&Clr

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P.S. if this has helped you, please reply and let me know, thanks...
also please note: that this port is prone to the Netsky worm, that is currently running itself all over the world. Dont believe me, see for yourself at the website of Trend Micro, URL and check out their virus map of the world and which country is getting hit by what... due to the overwhelming amount of people who have this port 1025 open they are susceptible to these worms and trojans.
i hope i have helped. good luck~

your running XP just right click on the network card or modem and enable the built in firewall.

Just ask anyone, the built in firewall that comes w XP is the lamest thing they added to XP...
so for those who wish to apply a serious solution, please follow the instructions i previously posted... and advice to those using XP's built in firewall... disable it and get urself some other protection that is configurable...
good luck,...
Swpnclr

XP firewall is not brilliant, but it's not too bad as a free solution. Anyway, this thread is really old now... the original question was posted in October 2003.