[ale] The NOAA is portscanning me ...

Jonathan Rickman jonathan at xcorps.net
Thu Jan 30 09:07:29 EST 2003


On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Cory T. Echols wrote:

> Does anyone know why I'd be getting probed just for downloading weather
> reports?


You're most likely misinterpreting the logs. gkrellm's weather plugin is
misbehaving and creating false positives. To keep it simple, what you're
seeing is traffic gkrellm requested but was too dumb to listen for
afterwards.

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Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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