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How to close those ports

I have installed SBS 2003 Standard (No Isa Server) and ran the wizard that installs the Firewall. Now I check with grc.com ( Shields up) and I have apparently several ports open (21, 25, 80. 443). How can that be? And how can I close them?

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Port 21 is FTP, 25 is SMTP (for email), 80 is HTTP and 443 is HTTPS, you need to have these ports open in order to send/receive mail, browse the web etc.
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Thanks. So nothing to worry about? In the past when I worked with ISA-server grc-reported that I operated entirely in stealth modus.
What else is running on the server? I'd guess Exchange and IIS?
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Yes, the standard package.
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You should close port 21 (FTP) incoming unless you need to allow incoming FTP traffic.  FTP is very insecure and vulnerable to hacking. Unless you don't have a hardware firewall in place, that would be preferable and more secure than using the Internet connection sharing capabilities of your SBS server.  However, if you don't have a hardware firewall, then you can close the ports you need to close by editing the firewall configuration.
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Thanks TheoRichel.
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--Rob