My fresh install of Windows 7 shows 5 programs listening on TCP ephermeral ports:
TCP 0.0.0.0:49152 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49153 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49154 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49155 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49157 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
netstat -ano shows that one of the processes is wininit.exe.
Why is wininit.exe listening for TCP traffic and how do I prevent it? (I don't want to have to firewall it).
Best Answer
Ports 135, 49152, 49153, 49154, 49155, 49156, & 49157 are all associated with MSRPC. You may want to try to turn it off in Services list.