At start up Limewire detects my routers firewall then after about half an hour the firewall icon disappears and the port is open and not reported as closed even if port 6346 is reported as closed I can still upload at a good rate what I am saying is that Limewire opens up a lot of ports on my routers SPI firewall which are not used by Gnutella at all

After I run Limewire it opens up all my ports that were reported as closed leaving them wide open then after I'm done with my transfers and close limwire they go back to closed

So, what's the problem? That's what LimeWire's supposed to do -- it's LimeWire using UPnP to configure itself for optimal use. If you really don't want it, go to Tools -> Options, Advanced -> Firewall Config, and change the option to "Do Nothing".

yeah I know that but more then port 6346 becomes open

6346 is the Gnutella port. What else opens?

1125 1126 144 4933 6348 4638
those are the ports that are currently open while running LW earlier today there were even more open I'm not sure what associated ports LW runs on I was thking LW only runs on port 6346

You did get Limewire from the official website http://www.limewire.com , right? There should be nothing besides 6346 open.

yes I got limewire pro from liemwire.com

How did you determine that those other ports were opened?

I used a few web sites that do port scans and took a look around my windows a bit but it doesn't seem to happen 100 percent of the time that I am using LW I was checking to see if other ports were open because of the new firewall icon displayed on LW inspired me to look into that a little further which I normally do a security check from time to time