It is used to try to bypass filtering/firewall security to see if you have
open ports on your system by asking that port to close a connection and see
what happens.
I get these rarely, and lately, 90% of them have been coming from/through
jboss.org.
----- Original Message -----
From: "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 6:07 PM
Subject: RE: [JBoss-user] TCP FIN scans
> what is a TCP FIN scan?
>
> marcf
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> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of G.L. Grobe
> |Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 5:34 PM
> |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> |Subject: [JBoss-user] TCP FIN scans
> |
> |
> |A little off the topic, but why do I keep getting TCP FIN scans from
> |66.37.140.9 (jboss.org). It started about 10 days ago and hits almost
every
> |day now.
> |
> |Just curious.
> |TIA
> |
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