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RE: [OT] ISPs and kid scanning your computer



I truly hope Barak will have enough common sense to leave their setup
as-is. Because the only solution to the problem you describe here is a
firewall.

E.g. Barak will simply filter all incoming connections on specific
ports. *I* want to retain my freedom to decide what ports are open and
what are closed, and to setup my firewall however I like it.

I have so many scans daily (I'm connected with ADSL to Barak), that I
hardly look at them anymore. I have them sent to a separate log file
that got archived offline for later inspection if need arises, and
that's all. You can't do much about it. I don't think it's even
illegal in Israel.

Haim.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il
> [mailto:linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il]On Behalf Of Boaz Rymland
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:29 AM
> To: Linux IL (E-mail)
> Subject: [OT] ISPs and kid scanning your computer
>
>
> Hi list,
>
> I'm connected to the internet via Barak online, with a
> linux IP-masquerading
> machine, with a decent IPChains setup in my kernel. I'm
> also using xconsole
> so I see the deny & logged attempts to log into my machine.
>
> The thing is I get many many scans, and I can see only the
> non-stealth ones.
> I'm being scanned many times per connection to the net,
> which is nowadays
> almost daily. The unauthorized connection attempts are to
> various ports,
> including 137, 12345, etc' etc' other beautiful assortments... .
>
> I was wandering if people subscribed to other ISPs also get
> many scans as I,
> or this is something Barak excels at (having too many
> kids-with-much-spare-time-on-their-hands...) .
>
> BTW, obviously, Barak are extremely useful when I call them
> complaining
> about this situation that each time I connect through them
> I get scanned
> (god knows how many scans such as those were made when
> other people in my
> house connected via Windows).
>
> Boaz.
>
>
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