Hi Thomas .... Steve ...
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On 31/01/00 at 10:31 Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\) wrote:
>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
The port is for socks / proxy
A lot of people who use the @home service just block the whole @home IP
space and only allow DNS, specific web pages, mail service etc
I have a script written which shows specific @home blocking, email
privately if interested at looking at it.........(Steve I guess)
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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