Re: @Home & Port Scan Activity

[Steve <sgulick poboxes com>]

@home scanned me last night at about midnite. Ports 80, 33172, 33532

Either their confused or their full of it!

Seve

On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Eric Wood wrote:
> One user said they're doing it to prevent spam on their news servers.
> Bullsh**!  They don't need to port scan everyone for nntp.  People use nntp
> for valid reasons.  They need to detect mulitple news postings on their
> server's end.  That's the best way to prevent spam.  They're creating IP
> traffic, creating problems, and creating my ulser.
> 
> I'd like to have a little with that lady.  Who talked to her?  What's her
> number?
> -eric wood
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>
> >Seriously folks, get a sense of scale. If they're bugging you, put a
> >special case REJECT rule at the front of your firewall rules for them
> >and forget it.
> 
> 
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