Although considered impolite, I'm not aware of portscans and other
such simple probes as being illegal. And no, they are not entering
your computer without authorization. It the actually crack into the
computer an look at your files, etc..., then yes, that constitutes the
electronic form of breaking and entering.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:29:49AM -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote:
>
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Robert Glover wrote:
>
> >
> > Yeah, I noticed that too. Instead of looking for open proxy servers on port
> > 8080, 3128, or scanning for known vulnerabilities, they're just checking for
> > web servers. I guess that's so they can make more money, but it might just
> > be that they don't know what they're doing (IMO). An @Home UDP might be a
> > real possibility again, if they don't start looking for the real problems.
>
> Strange thing is when tey hit my web serve they just sit there and it
> times out. They never get anything. Always returns an error code of 408.
>
> They have been also hitting the nntp port (119), but they never do
> anything. That's about once a day. I've had the default serve install of
> innd up and running for morethan a month. no newsgroups (ohter than a test
> for a project I'm working on) but they never get anything.
>
> I never see a connect to any other port.
>
> That's OK, I've now blocked them from jsut about every port on the system.
> Let's let them figure that out.
>
> On another note, is it legal what they are doing? They are doing something
> that the FBI goes around and arrests people for. They are entering
> mycomputr system, wihout authorization.
>
> Chris
>
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