> My cable provider has a "no servers" policy for their standard accounts > (if you want to run servers, you need to pay more). To enforce this, > they seem to scan their new customers. The first few weeks after I > signed up, they scanned me daily. It has stopped now, so I guess I'll be > able to open ssh on time :)
Well, if you can tell where the scans are comming from, you can just block those addresses and still open some services. Just block off your ISP's scanning addresses or network.