Andy2510 Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Hi.I've been recently recieving a lot of Spam messages and I'm starting to think there's a program on my machine sending out junk email (I use Mailwasher and I get to see emails in non-HTML form, and a few state that I sent them originally, when I never!) Over the weekend I downloaded some Port Reporting software from Microsoft to see if there is any program using Port 80 (the email port). I read the report today and there was 4 programs, Mailwasher, Outlook, Avast Anti-Virus (it scans email) and uTorrent!Why would uTorrent need to access Port 80 as it doesn't send emails? It even weirder that I did 2 searches within uTorrent and both of these seem to be recorded as accessing Port 80.I want to eliminate uTorrent (version 1.6) from my enquiries so can anyone know of an explination into why it is using this port?Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 port 80 isn't the email port...it uses port 25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#Help.21_.C2.B5Torrent_is_sending_e-mails.2Faccessing_the_web.2Fetc.21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy2510 Posted November 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Thanks.I'm sure Port 80 is the email port - mainly because Outlook and Mailwasher access this port when active. Ports 25 and 110 I think are the SMTP and POP3 ports for recieving/sending emails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 80 isn't an e-mail port25 and 110 are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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