I use portsentry on my outside machine (detects portscans and drops all future traffic from hosts running them). In my opinion, portscanning is slightly invasive, even if it is "for the protection of you and other rr customers." It's like having an employee of your apartment complex/housing community come to your house at 2am and try to get into all the doors and windows.
Levi
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:32:37 -0500
"Robert Foxworth" <rfoxwor1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Yes they are. (I am one of the someone)
>
> Incidentally I got a "ICMP PING NMAP" from our good helpful
> friends at 24.30.199.228 (securityscan.sec.rr.com) on the 21st
> at 2017 EST. I also was portscanned again yesterday, which
> actually takes up a fair amount of my bandwidth for about 20 minutes
> but this was not from a RR address, the IP sounded European.
> Did not look it up, actually
>
> As I write this at 2225 Sunday Drudge is reporting the Navy is seizing
> computers from 100 midshipmen full of illegally downloaded MP3 files.
> This at the Naval Academy. Apparently done at the urging of the music
> industry. Clone of BSA ??
>
>
> > These are not rr or TW addresses, fact they seem to
> > be like someone said in places like Poland, France
> > and Canada.
> >
> >
>
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