🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 11:33:23 GMT, Bud the Real <thekat@san.rxyzr.com> wrote:
>Julio Garrovillas <garrovij@home.com> wrote:
>  
>>My PC is being hacked by someone with this I.P. 24.2.6.194  I have
>>installed a security program called Intruder Alert '99 so he can't get
>>in my backdoor but he seems persistent at least once a day sometimes
>>twice, the alarm would go off. Same I.P. address but I can't trace it
>>back.
>>
>>Anyone know how to get rid of this guy?
>
>That is an IRC server for @home.  DO you use IRC?

IRC servers have started pinging for open ports due to other users on
IRC attempting to abuse people's machines.  This is not an "attack"
but just a security safeguard on their side.

This demonstrates a common problem with a lot of firewall software,
in that it assumes that any incoming traffic is an attack.  

Basically, there is no problem, your security program is just a little
overzealous.

And if that is all you get, you are lucky.  I get about 5-6
probes per day that are actually probing for weaknesses.  If I 
see multiple ones from the same person, I report him to abuse@
his provider.

Pete