On Dec 21, 2023, Alain D D Williams wrote: > My home PC is receiving, for hours at a time, 12-30 kB/s input > traffic. This is unsolicited. I do not know what it is trying to > achieve but suspect no good. It is also eating my broadband > allowance. > > Questions: > > • What is going on ?
Looks like bots. > > • What can I do about it ? Dropping the entirety of Asia/Africa has helped my logs (though, my ISP doesn't track usage; and I imagine if they did, it wouldn't actually HELP anything there, since the traffic already made it to me). If it's a reputable hosting company, contacting their abuse department may possibly help them kill the account(s) running the bots. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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