On 10/15/2001 05:56:56 PM ethan wrote: >I can't begin to count the number of times that visitors to our site, >whom just got that spiffy new firewall on their windows box, have >emailed me, cc'd to the FBI, our upstream, and anyone else they can >think of claiming our servers were "breaking into" their machine. It's a shame these 'spiffy new firewalls' don't come packaged with at least a small amount of clue under the shrinkwrap. Having somebody retrieve files via FTP from your server, and then send you, your upstream etc the logs showing you trying to *ahem* 'hack' them on the auth port and, astoundingly, the ftp-data port really goes to show how over-paranoid and hysterical people can get. >Any newbie >with a firewall that suspects something is going to become a terrorist >spotter. I'd have to agree that the reporting of every small incident leads to a complete loss of perspective for some people. -- Dan Ellis, Software Engineer Sophos Anti-Virus email: dan.ellisat_private http://www.sophos.com US Support: +1 888 SOPHOS 9 UK Support: +44 1235 559933
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