Re: Someone could be infected.

[Steve]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Ron Clarke wrote:

>     Sadly, my ISP that I use for mail finally told me that telnet is
> forbidden to all except their own techs, so I was advised to just download
> them and then delete them.  What a novel idea !

  In this context, they mean that connecting to 
their port 23 is "forbidden."  
  
  Using a "telnet client" to communicate with your
POP server on port 110 is no different than using 
a "POP client" to communicate with port 110.

  Hmmm... too bad nobody's ever compiled netcat for
DOS.  http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~skx/win/Free14.html

 - Steve