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In article <B0D431199668C5233@lovejoy.demon.co.uk>,
ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk (Ben Lovejoy) wrote:

> slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk.NOJUNK (Simon Slavin) wrote:
> 
> >Try connecting to all the common ports (http, nntp, pop3, smtp, telnet,
> >ftp, etc.) for every machine on your subnet.
> 
> Wouldn't they need the subnet addresses? How would they get these?

They probably wouldn't intentionally be concentrating on one
company -- just trying every IP address they could find.  Your
subnet is probably a collection of addresses which are all in
a block: aa.bb.cc.1 to aa.bb.cc.254.

If you have an IP address that isn't behind either a firewall
or a router programmed to drop intrusive packets, their packets
will reach your machines.  If you don't have Internet-type
software on your machines (more than just a web-browser), it
probably doesn't matter.  Some software (like FileMaker Pro)
which isn't obviously Internet-based software will still pick
up some Internet packets and do things with them if correctly
configured -- that's the stuff you have to watch.

Simon.
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