From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Rob Sterenborg" <rob@sterenborg.info>
Subject: RE: open ports 25/tcp and 110/tcp
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 00:08:05 +0100
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> Although my script seems to be correct namp is finding ports 25/tcp
> and 110/tcp open.  To start troubleshooting this problem I've
> commented everything out and stripped down the ruleset to just the
> default DROP policy.  Yet nmap -sT -F -P0 -0 xx.xx.xx.xx still
> returns 25/tcp and 110/tcp as open!

Did you check the PC from another host ? If you do that, the ports 
will show open even if they are closed.
Check from another host and it should show closed or filtered.


Gr,
Rob