[thelist] Advice on being Hammered (Port Scanned)

Daniel J. Cody djc at members.evolt.org
Fri Jan 25 16:50:01 CST 2002


Chris -

What port are they scanning on your machine? Is it one port thats
getting hit or a variety of them?

If it starts getting really bad, just unplug your network connection :)

.djc.

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, cdj wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am looking for some advice. It seems that for the last several hours,
> my poor little computer has been the target of a massive TCP port probe.
> Black Ice has recorded attacks so far numbering about 10 000+ from all
> over the world.
>
> So, my question is this; Is this normal (I have never experienced this
> before) and what would you do in my place?
>
> I installed and ran Zone Alarm because I wanted to see if the problem
> could be a program on my computer, such as a trojan horse. However,
> nothing out of the ordinary showed up. Just email and internet explorer.




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