Re: My firewall intercepts probes from ARPA

From: Stan Hilliard (usenetreplyUM_at_samplingplansNOTSPAM.com)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:00:46 -0500

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 09:45:17 -0700, Nemo S. <Nemo@Nemo.net> wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:10:37 -0500, Stan Hilliard
><usenetreplyUM@samplingplansNOTSPAM.com> wrote:
>
>>What would be the purpose of someone looking up the DNS of the
>>temporary IP of my dialup connection?
>
>
>where have you been surfing, or someone else with that set of IP
>addressess ...

I do many searches for information, including the news. So I don't
keep track of where I surf.

Could I be that I am being spyed on for visiting such places as
aljazeera.com.

Or the now-disabled site that original posted the pictures of the
torture of prisoners at Abu Graeb prison in Iraq?

>it could be someone has done a probe into a sensitive area and set off
>a security robot, is your system a Zombie ...
>~Nemo~

I dont think so, but I don't know what a Zombie is. I have just an
ordinary PC that I connect with 56K dialup,. Otherwise, I use it for
software development.

Stan Hilliard

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