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SIP on Windows 2000

I have just taken over some older windows 2000 servers that house a client server application. A recent scan from the Security Operations Center tells me that I have SIP services running and I need to justify having them or remove them. As far as I know, SIP is for IP telephony and we don't use anything like that on our servers. How do I go about disabling this? And is this wise?
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it sounds unlikely - sip is (indeed) a form of voice over ip, usually on udp, and almost invariably on ports 5060 or 5061. There is some interplay between that and OCS, if you are running that, but I doubt strongly that is going to be on a win2k server.

It sounds more likely that *something* is running on port 5060 and/or 5061, and your SOC can't tell the difference between a random app on those ports and a real sip server.

I would suggest the easiest method is to use tcpview (from the sysinternals/microsoft site -
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx - and see what is running on that port. If it is non-obvious what it is that is running (its a service under svchost) then note the process id, and look THAT up using process explorer - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

I suspect you will find that it is something harmless, but check with your SOC that they are just concerned that SOMETHING is running on 5060 (and if not, ask them what it is they *are* reporting so you can investigate further)
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They sent me this text of the scan:

Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-05-04 09:02 MDT
Interesting ports on 161.X.X.X
Not shown: 988 closed ports
PORT     STATE    SERVICE       VERSION
111/tcp  open     rpcbind
135/tcp  open     msrpc         Microsoft Windows RPC
139/tcp  open     netbios-ssn
445/tcp  open     microsoft-ds  Microsoft Windows 2000 microsoft-ds
1032/tcp open     msrpc         Microsoft Windows RPC
1095/tcp open     msrpc         Microsoft Windows RPC
1720/tcp filtered H.323/Q.931
2000/tcp filtered callbook
3372/tcp open     msdtc?
3389/tcp open     microsoft-rdp Microsoft Terminal Service
5060/tcp filtered sip
6502/tcp open     msrpc         Microsoft Windows RPC
1 service unrecognized despite returning data. If you know the service/version, please submit the following fingerprint at http://www.insecure.org/cgi-bin/servicefp-submit.cgi :
SF-Port3372-TCP:V=4.76%I=7%D=5/4%Time=49FF0379%P=i686-pc-linux-gnu%r(GetRe
SF:quest,6,"P\x9a\n\0x\x01")%r(RTSPRequest,6,"P\x9a\n\0x\x01")%r(HTTPOptio
SF:ns,6,"P\x9a\n\0x\x01")%r(Help,6,"P\x9a\n\0x\x01")%r(SSLSessionReq,6,"P\
SF:x9a\n\0x\x01")%r(FourOhFourRequest,6,"P\x9a\n\0x\x01")%r(LPDString,6,"P
SF:\x9a\n\0x\x01")%r(SIPOptions,6,"P\x9a\n\0x\x01");
Service Info: OS: Windows

Host script results:
|  Discover OS Version over NetBIOS and SMB: Windows 2000
|_ Discover system time over SMB: 2009-05-04 09:03:24 UTC-4

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 76.04 seconds

Honestly I don't know what to make of it. I downloaded the tools that you pointed out and  was not able to come to a conclusion. I didn't see anything with regards to port 5060. Is there anything else you can tell me about this? Thanks
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Thanks Dave. That worked! You are the man!