On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 01:37:40PM -0500, Steve wrote:
> Portsentry flagged a scan on port 1080 today. I got the following:
> 
> Active System Attack Alerts
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Jan 28 13:30:19 localhost portsentry[585]: attackalert: Connect from host: 
>24.64.239.167.ab.wave.home.com/24.64.239.167 to TCP port: 1080
[...] 
> Some one trying to get in or just @home scanning my system?
[...]

>From what I've seen on the "Incidents" mailing list, it might well be
@home themselves, scanning for illegal servers/proxies/etc. on their
networks. port 1080 is a proxy port, AFAIR.

Cheerio,

Thomas
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