🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks all for the info. I guess I just have to live with it. Better
safe than sorry, eh.

Pete McNab wrote:
> 
> 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