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Gary Helfert

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:23 am
Post subject: It is normal to get intrusion attempts every 10 minutes?
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I am running Norton internet security software and so far my computer has
not been infected,
however I am always getting intrusion alerts.

I t was only a year ago all you had to do is not open email with a
suspicious attachment.
What has happened between now & then.

1) Islamic terrorist bent on making computer life miserable for Americans

2) Profit motive.

3) Bored unemployed computer professionals.

Whats your take on the change over the last year?

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Ionizer

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:23 am
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"Gary Helfert" <ghelfert DeleteThis @worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:CXJLc.300930$Gx4.234710@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> I am running Norton internet security software and so far my computer
has
> not been infected,
> however I am always getting intrusion alerts.
>
> I t was only a year ago all you had to do is not open email with a
> suspicious attachment.
> What has happened between now & then.
>
> 1) Islamic terrorist bent on making computer life miserable for
Americans
>
> 2) Profit motive.
>
> 3) Bored unemployed computer professionals.
>
> Whats your take on the change over the last year?

And don't forget about the script kiddies. Just turn off the alerts.

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Ian.

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Gabriele Neukam

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:04 pm
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On that special day, Gary Helfert, (ghelfert@worldnet.att.net) said...

> 1) Islamic terrorist bent on making computer life miserable for Americans
>
> 2) Profit motive.
>
> 3) Bored unemployed computer professionals.

4) corrupt programmers which work for the spammer and porn site mafia
(see the Sobig worms, BHO and CoolWebSearch attacks)


Gabriele Neukam

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Ah, Information. A good, too valuable these days, to give it away, just
so, at no cost.
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David G.

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 7:03 pm
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Bart Bailey wrote:
> Not really.
> Normal for me would be multiple attempts per minute.
> But there are times when I don't see any for an hour.
>
> It's not the attempts that matter, it's the successes.


I have Sygate free firewall, and there is a company out west scanning my
ports (unsucessfully I hope). Is this what you are talking about, because it
is very annoying. Sygate backtraces it to a company called Qwest ( I think
in Colorado)...I have half a mind to start a harrassing E-mail campaign Smile
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Duane Arnold

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 11:23 pm
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"David G." <arlo22aNOSPAM.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:2mdjpeFks3cpU1@uni-berlin.de:

> Bart Bailey wrote:
>> Not really.
>> Normal for me would be multiple attempts per minute.
>> But there are times when I don't see any for an hour.
>>
>> It's not the attempts that matter, it's the successes.
>
>
> I have Sygate free firewall, and there is a company out west scanning
> my ports (unsucessfully I hope). Is this what you are talking about,
> because it is very annoying. Sygate backtraces it to a company called
> Qwest ( I think in Colorado)...I have half a mind to start a
> harrassing E-mail campaign Smile
>
>

Qwest is an ISP and has user/customers with machines on their network
just like you're using an ISP with your machine on a network. Some users
on the Qwest network may have machines with self populating worms trying
to reach out and infect other machines on the Internet.

You should just be happy you have Sygate on the machine blocking the
scans and attacks and forget about it. I dare say that if you sent an
email to Qwest they may send one back to you about your harassment. Wink

Duane Smile
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