Re: Scans from proxyprotector.com

From: Charles Blackburn (charlesbat_private)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 17:36:14 PDT

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    well i'm still getting the usual 70-odd hits myself, but i've also noticed they've changed tack and are now scanning my broadcast addresses as well.
    
    charles
    
    On Sat, 17 May 2003 20:58:21 -0500
    Chris Boyd <cboydat_private> wrote:
    
    > No, IRC is not running on any of my servers.
    > 
    > The scanning seems to have slowed down--ony 75 so far today (against 5
    > 
    > IP addresses).  I can see scanning the box once, but the same address 
    > is being scanned every few hours.
    > 
    > On Saturday, May 17, 2003, at 05:31  AM, Mark Ng wrote:
    > 
    > > After reading their site (www.proxyprotector.com) , it appears that 
    > > this is
    > > to do with connections to IRC servers, They don't claim to be
    > > scanning the
    > > whole Internet - are these scans against hosts that you use IRC from
    > > ?
    > 
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