Advice for someone in trouble



Dear all,

I'm a developer with a local government in the UK, who have a pretty
standard coporporate network accommodating various hardware and software
services.

I was suspended from work today following a meeting with the head of IT
because they have logs that my system appeared to be running somekind of
scanning software that over a period of hours interogated 1200 machines on
the network. There's no scanning software installed by the way, well none
that I know of.

Could anyone offer a logical explanation for this? I use a number of
development packages e.g. MS SQL Studio Express, Dreamweaver, VS2005 and
while I do download a lot of opensource development tools I can't think of
anything that would have given this effect. I do have access to various
server across the network and sometimes use nslookup etc...

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Infinite


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