Hi,
With the below results of a netstat -ta, which ports would you recommend closing. I noticed that NeWS and irc are listening. I do not have a news server or irc on the machine.
If you're running portsentry, your output of netstat -ta doesn't surprise me. Portsentry listens on a lot of ports (configurable).
You can place a # in front of services you don't need in /etc/inetd.conf. Then, issue [no quotes] "kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`".
HTH... Nico