Re: Mediaone Hacker

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From: Jon Marshall
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:00

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A lot of times sockets and port probes are people looking for Game servers.
There are programs that will go out and scan a range of IP address for say
Quake or Halflife games servers. Running DSL, I see it a lot. Like you said,
it's probably a kid looking to join in a game.

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<me@me> wrote in message news:et0e5skoijne27mj0m1qr46k1817mp0fa7@4ax.com...
> A hacker paid me a visit early this morning.  My freebee firewall
> (AtGuard) appears to have deterred him.  The report shows the hacker
> did a Sockets port probe.  The hackers IP is 24.30.12x.xx.  I did the
> usual DNS & Whois, and only found he is from mediaone.  I complained

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From: "Jon Marshall" <marshall@nospam.augustmail.com>
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Date: 1999/12/14
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