Is this friend or foe?

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From: COB
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00

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I've been using Atguard for some time, and generally understand
everything the interactive rule-setter tells me. When connected via
demon, it has reported nothing out of the ordinary.

Last night, I was web-browsing using X-stream's 0800 service, and
blocked the following (text taking from event log):-

<---start of log entry
This one time, the user has chosen to "block" communications.  Details:
Inbound UDP packet 
Local address,service is (my machine)
Remote address,service is (195.99.53.125,60000)
Process name is "N/A"
-------end of log entry-->

The IP address comes from BTinternet's dynamic pool. Was this a probe,
and should I be complaining to abuse@BTinternet? What would the 'prober'
have been trying to achieve? 

(I've looked at dejanews on this, but couldn't find the answers there).

TIA.
-- 
Colette

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Subject: Is this friend or foe?
Date: 2000/05/10
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