How to Perfectly Uninstall Avast Free Mac Security. Bernice Curry; 17-04-17 9:09; 6982; Avast Mac Security (formerly Avast Free Antivirus for Mac) is a relatively famous, free security program that can protect your Mac from malware threats. For mac does not listen on port 8000 (unless you have changed the configuration file manually) and does not block it or redirect it in any way. I installed and used Avast Mac Security just to run its 'Scan', and made sure everything was disabled/off (so Avast should not be doing anything whatsoever). The Activity Monitor continued to show an Avast 'helper' process was always running (and would restart immediately after being killed). It seems that the AVG firewall may be blocking some features on the Kongregate gaming site after the last update. I need to check if ports 5222 and 5229 are open, but AVG does not allow me to do this through the Windows Firewall settings, and I can't figure out how to do it directly through AVG. But with Avast FW installed, I have noticed sometimes WAN IP shows 195.195.x.x & when this IP is shown, grc.com shows 2 ports stealth, rest closed & 80 & 443 open always. Avast Home Network scan also reports this prob when WAN IP shows this IP.
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On Linux, I can use
ptspts
netstat -pntl | grep $PORT
or fuser -n tcp $PORT
to find out which process (PID) is listening on the specified TCP port. How do I get the same information on Mac OS X?
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On macOS High Sierra, use this command:
On older versions, use one of the following forms:
Substitute
$PORT
with the port number or a comma-separated list of port numbers.
Prepend
sudo
(followed by a space) if you need information on ports below #1024.
The
-n
flag is for displaying IP addresses instead of host names. This makes the command execute much faster, because DNS lookups to get the host names can be slow (several seconds or a minute for many hosts).
The
-P
flag is for displaying raw port numbers instead of resolved names like http
, ftp
or more esoteric service names like dpserve
, socalia
.
See the comments for more options.
Per Lundberg
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ptspts
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Since Snow Leopard (10.6), up to Mojave (10.14), every version of macOS supports this:
sudo lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -n -P
Personally I've end up with this simple function in my
~/.bash_profile
:
Then
listening
command gives you a listing of processes listening on some port and listening smth
greps this for some pattern.
Having this, it's quite easy to ask about particular process, e.g.
listening dropbox
, or port, e.g. listening 22
.
lsof
command has some specialized options for asking about port, protocol, process etc. but personally I've found above function much more handy, since I don't need to remember all these low-level options. lsof
is quite powerful tool, but unfortunately not so comfy to use.
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Rog182Rog182
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Update January 2016
Really surprised no-one has suggested:
to get the basic information required. For instance, checking on port 1337:
Other variations, depending on circumstances:
You can easily build on this to extract the PID itself. For example:
which is also equivalent (in result) to this command:
Quick illustration:
For completeness, because frequently used together:
To kill the PID:
or as a one liner:
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thSoft
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Charley WuCharley Wu
Adobe flash builder 4.7 mac download. on OS X you can use the -v option for netstat to give the associated pid.
type:
the output will look like this:
The PID is the number before the last column, 3105 for this case
Sean HamiltonSean Hamilton
For the LISTEN, ESTABLISHED and CLOSED ports
For the LISTEN ports only
https://benchclever947.weebly.com/best-file-vault-app-for-mac.html. For a specific LISTEN port, ex: port 80
Or if you just want a compact summary [no service/apps described], go by NETSTAT. The good side here is, no sudo needed
Explaining the items used:
-n suppress the host name
-i for IPv4 and IPv6 protocols
Dope vst torrent download. -P omit port names
-a [over netstat] for all sockets
-n [over netstat] don't resolve names, show network addresses as numbers
Tested on High Sierra 10.13.3 and Mojave 10.14.3
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Avast for mac screenshot. the last syntax netstat works on linux too
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lsof you can try over Debian based: apt-get install lsof
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On macOS, here's an easy way to get the process ID that's listening on a specific port with netstat. This example looks for a process serving content on port 80:
![For For](/uploads/1/3/3/8/133812734/850766163.jpg)
sample output
The 2nd from the last column is the PID. In above, it's 715.
options
-a
- show all ports, including those used by servers
-n
- show numbers, don't look up names. This makes the command a lot faster
-v
- verbose output, to get the process IDs
-w
- search words. Otherwise the command will return info for ports 8000 and 8001, not just '80'
LISTEN
- give info only for ports in LISTEN mode, i.e. servers
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On the latest macOS version you can use this command:
If you find it hard to remember then maybe you should create a
bash
function and export it with a friendlier name like so
and then add the following lines to that file and save it.
Now you can type
arturgrigorarturgrigor
listening_on 80
in your Terminal and see which process is listening on port 80
.
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On Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8), running 'man lsof' yields:
(actual manual entry is 'lsof -i 4 -a -p 1234')
The previous answers didn't work on Snow Leopard, but I was trying to use 'netstat -nlp' until I saw the use of 'lsof' in the answer by pts.
Brent SelfBrent Self
I am a Linux guy. In Linux it is extremely easy with
anothermh
netstat -ltpn
or any combination of those letters. But in Mac OS X netstat -an | grep LISTEN
is the most humane. Others are very ugly and very difficult to remember when troubleshooting.
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edibedib
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This displays who's doing what. Remove -n to see hostnames (a bit slower).
Misha TavkhelidzeMisha Tavkhelidze
FrankFrank
Auto-tune pro t-pain sound. I made a small script to see not only who is listening where but also to display established connections and to which countries. Download yosemite 10.10.5 dmg. Works on OSX Siera
This may be useful to check if you are connected to north-korea! ;-)
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Is avast needed for mac. Inspired by user Brent Self:
lsof -i 4 -a | grep LISTEN
https://generationtree680.weebly.com/blog/is-avast-free-or-mcafee-total-protection-better-for-mac.
PunnerudPunnerud
For macOS I use two commands together to show information about the processes listening on the machine and process connecting to remote servers. In other words, to check the listening ports and the current (TCP) connections on a host you could use the two following commands together
Thought I would add my input, hopefully it can end up helping someone.
BoschkoBoschko
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