Hello Andrew
On 16-Dec-00, Andrew Bruno wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, this is a bit of a cross posting, but it kind of covers both worlds.
>
> I now and then use AMIRC for chatting. After all it is a good program.
>
> I had been in a few chats and was about to disconnect. I opened genesis'
> GUI and found that I had an attempted access from someone to my machine.
Which port - it could have been a simple IDENTD connect from the IRC server
as they do check using an AUTH system - and that is a connection to your
machine...
Could you show us the port and such info in the attempted connection?
> I think it is from BT (from line 16) but am not sure if it is a real
> person or a robot.
The loop looks like the system is designed to filter out and disallow trace
pings.
> Either way, it is a bit scarey when you go to disconnect and find things
> like that showing in the list.
Yes, it can be.
Regards
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