Re: Port 18593 attacks
ironrose <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:56:35 -0500
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Let me remind you....I am telling the group what the Security person at=20 Cox said to do...it isn't my idea...do whatever you want with the=20 information. I was just trying to help and apparently my help isn't=20 valued. ~Anne Jonathan Hall wrote: >>Sandy asked if you were able to determine who is port scanning you or >>what isp they are using. If it is one of cox's customers, then she >>needs to find out and cox will go after them, suspending their service >=20 >=20 > Well he pasted several IPs. It should be easy for anyone at Cox (or > anywhere at all, for that matter) to determine if they are Cox customer= s. >=20 > I looked up just a few here: >=20 > 24.167.87.199 cs2416787-199.houston.rr.com > 24.167.68.48 cs2416768-48.houston.rr.com > 68.113.250.214 c68.113.250.214.ona.wi.charter.com > 68.47.163.14 pcp01626435pcs.westk01.tn.comcast.net >=20 > A superficial observation suggests that these four IPs are from Texas, > Texas, Wisconsin, and Tennesee, respectively, and are not customers of = Cox. >=20 >=20 >=20 >>send them to [email protected] Apparently asking people to be nice on the >>internet doesn't work, going after them legally (if enough evidence can >>be gathered and presented in court) is going to be the only way to stop >>the deviant computer users. ~Anne >=20 >=20 > That's assuming these ARE deviant computer users. A more likely explan= ation > is generally a virus/trojan-infected computer, as I suggested in an ear= lier > e-mail. >=20 > -- Jonathan >=20 > -- This is the [email protected] list. To unsubscribe, > visit http://www.complete.org/cgi-bin/listargate-aclug.cgi >=20 >=20 -- This is the [email protected] list. To unsubscribe, visit http://www.complete.org/cgi-bin/listargate-aclug.cgi