Re: Have firewall/internal network, but still receiving probes from AOL user -- how?

From: Anonymous User (googleTrashBin_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/07/03 

Date: 7 Dec 2003 11:56:11 -0800

"harry wong" <wong@aol.com> wrote in message news:<EkEAb.2692$Ho3.77@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
> No matter what hardware or software firewall you have, whenever you're
> connected to the internet, your ISP is going to assign an IP address to you.
> You are always going to have folks who go trolling for trojans (hitting on a
> range of ip addresses) which is what is probably happened here. My only
> surprise is that it only occurred once.

Oh, I'm sure it's been happening more often; I just happened to notice
this one because I saw it in the logs, and I was surprised, since now
I've got this rudimentary hardware firewall, plus the software
firewall. The hardware firewall's *supposed* to be configured to
allow NO external connections to get through (at least, that's what
the configuration screen implied).

> What you really should be worried about is going to a shady website that
> will install various forms of spyware (with a trojan slipstreamed on
> perhaps) that will get through anything without a restrictive ruleset. And
> you better have a few layers of AV/spyware/antitrojan protection on your
> machine to catch slips.

I run AdAware and SpyBot regularly, so hopefully most of those kinds of
things are caught. Any other good programs I should be running?

> Not that I want to make you paranoid.

Too late! :-)

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