[thelist] Advice on being Hammered (Port Scanned)

Bob Fowler bob at rjf.ca
Fri Jan 25 17:02:01 CST 2002


> It seems to be port 1214 that keeps getting hit. Now I was running Kazaa
> earlier so this may have something to do with it. The system may still
> think that my computer is hooked up, even though the program has been
> off for several hours now.

Chris,

It's seems very likely that your host was operating as a Kazaa super-node.
If you want to prevent this from happening in the future, there is an option
to disable it under Tools --> Options under the "Advanced" tab.

Thanks,

Bob.





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