Marj - I agree, ZoneAlarm, on my home PC has been a boon. At work, I've got a firewall to protect me, but my Home PC really didn't have much, and since I run Win2K, I've never had too much faith that my system was secured.
In my original posting, I indicated that I was running ZA, and that's what tipped me off to these constant probes against my system. And, then I noticed that my ISP's news server was probing against my port 1080... So I posted looking for something to help me analyze the probes a little bit better than the rather simplistic messages ZA records. After running a script to setup a "server" on port 1080, I've caught some traffic, but it's just pings really. All the attempted intrusion seems to be doing is "pinging" to see if the port is open (1080 is commonly used as a Windows proxy port for HTTP) - nothing more. It's strange to see if coming from the news server of my ISP though. I assume they've been compromised, and mailed them about it twice. - Porter ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. A. Tiefert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mta0x15.coxmail.com> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 11:27 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Network Guru... > Louis -- > > At 01:53 PM 12/14/01 -0600, you wrote: > >Also, how can I know if an invasion has happened? > > > You can get ZoneAlarm (a firewall) free for personal use from > http://www.zonelabs.com/ > > I've been satisfied with it. > > cheers, > > Marj > > * * * > Marj Tiefert > Technical Writer, Website Manager -- and more! > http://www.mindspring.com/~mtiefert/resume/MTiefert.html > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
