Re: Have firewall/internal network, but still receiving probes from AOL user -- how?
From: Fô (11110000_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/09/03
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 00:10:35 GMT
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 11:40:20 GMT, "harry wong" <wong@aol.com> wrote:
>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.
>
>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.
>
>Not that I want to make you paranoid.
>
>
>"Anonymous User" <googleTrashBin@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:39af109b.0312070134.5389ee79@posting.google.com...
>> I checked my software-firewall's log (Sygate Personal) today, and
>> noticed that it showed what looked like someone at AOL hitting of my
>> ports. I didn't write down the info before clearing the log,
>> unfortunately, but *did* note that it was IP 172.198.145.77, which
>> traceroute showed to be "ACC6914D.ipt.aol.com"
>> (could always be spoofed, I suppose).
>>
>> I don't know a whole lot about setting up firewalls, but I know that
>> my DSL modem can function as a rudimentary firewall, and I have it set
>> up to act as one, and assign internal IP's with DHCP, and using NAT.
>>
>> I'd think that with such a setup, I'd be safe. How could someone get
>> through both hardware and software firewalls (Sygate was allowing the
>> access), know my internal IP (okay, it's a typical one for an internal
>> network), etc.?
>>
>> Or am I somehow mistaken in this, and I'm not seeing what I *think*
>> I'm seeing?
>
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