In article <ig19v0dv6fg59m9kg9djlijbbkfdag2mp0@4ax.com>, f/f george  <*> wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:44:39 -0000, gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston)
wrote:

In article <ct1m54$pnr$1@tioat.ath.cx>, Puddin <Puddin@dodgeit.com> wrote:

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So there is no way I am dropping it just to see if Seti works.

Disable it long enough to attempt a connection to the SETI@BOINC
server; if the connection works, you need to adjust the settings
on your firewally. If it doesn't, the problem isn't the firewall.

Reactivate it immediately after the test.

My system has been probed 500 times over the last two days and 
nine hours--and this is over a dialup link that is not up 24/7.

Most "hackers" that are probing will NOT use a dial-up connection.

If I bothered to analyze the logs, I'd almost certainly find that the
majority are from various worms (ports 135 and 445 are real popular).

As far as the script kiddies are concerned, they scan ranges of IP
addresses, irregardless of how they're connected.

They just aren't on long enough to be any good. What a "hacker", in
this case, is trying to do is use your computer to get to another.
Meaning anything they do will be traced back to your ocmputer and as
long as you don't keep logs, most people don't, then you are the one
the "police" will come after. Your computer COULD be used a DOS,
denial of service, attack but even then a dial-up may not even be on
so probably not worth the trouble.

On weekends, I'm routinely on from 0800 to 2300. However, the firewall
is quite effective at blocking all of it--which is why I have the logs.
That, and not using Outlook or Outlook Express, keeps my system quite
safe.


Gary

-- 
Gary Heston  gheston@hiwaay.net 

"I should have known something was up. She had all her teeth."
Potential juror re: being arrested for solicting an undercover officer.