Re: a third party PC is being used to scan my ports

From: Doctor Arcane (docarcane@altavista.net)
Date: 05/07/02 

From: docarcane@altavista.net (Doctor Arcane)
Date: 7 May 2002 09:38:33 -0700

> On 5 May 2002 03:17:47 -0700, edoardocosta@yahoo.com (Edoardo Costa)
> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >It seems people are using PC's to scan my ports. Problem is, when I
> >check it out, they always seems to be inocent victims who have thier
> >PC used as a front end.

You might want to check out portsentry. If it detects a port scan it
can alert you and even drop them from the routing tables.

-arcane

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