On 28 Nov 2000 09:58:02 MST, "Gary Hennigan" writes: >"Mario Olimpio de Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned >> recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine >> the running OS (something like nmap does). >> Do you think this *IS* an attack? I mean, should I report this >> as *AN* attack? > >I personally don't bother unless there's a pattern of scanning coming >from a particular location. If you're on the net for any length of >time it's a pretty frequent occurrence and if you tried to follow up >on each of them you'd be spending a significant amount of time filing >complaints.
I take a session of ~20 minutes filing various complaints per week. As I work for an ISP I know that it´s quite worth the time, the harder the life for script kiddies (funny everytime you tell the account holder eg parents ;-) what their kids do) and spammers the less likely that they try again. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 /
