Hello,
I'm running Windows 7 RC 64-bit and trying to setup WAMP, an Apache+PHP+MySQL distribution for Windows. Everything has installed fine and Apache was able to run after the install (I installed it some days ago), but today it wouldn't start. I digged through the logs and found it couldn't bind to port 80. I changed to config files to run on port 8888 and everything ran fine. So, interested in what was running on port 80 I ran netstat -aon on the console and found this:
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID
TCP 0.0.0.0:80 LIVINGROOMDSKTP:0 LISTENING 4
I looked up that PID in the Task Manager and found that it was the System process and that really confused me. This is something that has only happened in the past few days. I installed the XP Mode virtual machine today and that is the only thing I can think of that has changed in my system recently.
I can connect to localhost on my browser and I get a white page, not a connection failed message, so something is accepting HTTP requests. If I try to connect from another computer on my local network, I do get a connection failed. So, either it only accepts connections from localhost or Windows Firewall is correctly blocking it.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I don't want to jump to conclusions and assume something malicious is happening right away, but the thought has occurred.