RE: [OT] ISPs and kid scanning your computer

2001-05-24 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hey all, Yep, I get that many assortment of connection attempts to the various ports described here. Indeed, portmapper is really the favorite on my machine lately :-) . What a typo I had below - I meant to say that connecting Barak in extremely UNuseful !... :-) I talked to them on the phone,

RE: [OT] ISPs and kid scanning your computer

2001-05-24 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
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

Re: [OT] ISPs and kid scanning your computer

2001-05-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, May 24, 2001, Boaz Rymland wrote about "[OT] ISPs and kid scanning your computer": >... > 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 at

RE: [OT] ISPs and kid scanning your computer

2001-05-24 Thread Jeremy
> The thing is I get many many scans, and I can see only the > non-stealth ones. <--- snip ---> > 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...) . I was connected