I just had a really nice conversation with the folks @Home regarding this.
I called the [EMAIL PROTECTED] number 650-556-5399 and repoted
ops-scan.home.net as attempting to access my site repeatedly. I spoke with
a woman there (who expained thins pretty well) and was helpfull.
A few months ago they almost lost their newsfeed because people had open
proxies (ports) that allowed news articles to be forwarded to the
newsgroups. Some user from aol used an @home subscribers machine to spam
the world. It was a choice of either starting to scan or to loose their
newsfeeds.
How it works is that @home connects and if it finds an open nntp port your
IP address is blocked from posting news on their news server until the
port is closed and you request access. Now I really don't care as I do not
post news.
What the person at @home did not explain, and quite frankly I did not ask,
was why it is scanning all the ports (i.e. port 80, etc). They said what
they are really after is the NNTP ports at this time.
I really wish they would post, or make available via email request or
something a list of what they are looking for in computer security. This
would allow us to all play by the rules and not get caught off gaurd.
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Christopher Molnar
New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc.
Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Steve wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Edward Schernau wrote:
> > I highly recommend portsentry. I use it on my website, and
> > when triggered by a scan, it adds an ipfwadm rule blocking
> > all packets from the host in question. It also emails me.
> > I used to have it page me via emailing my cellphone, but hacks
> > got so frequent that I shut that off.
> >
> > Block @Home from sniffing you.
> >
>
> I am using it too. It is an amazing tool! The more emails I get w/ @home dumped
> into the bit bucket, the more I smile 8)
>
> Steve
>
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