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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Portscans/PROXY scans
There are however legitimate reasons for a portscan, responding to incoming abuse and attack being one of them, automatically searching for openrealys used to send you spam is another. Curtailing scanning shouldn't be a priority here, nailing packet kids, spammers etc should be. Sadly both of these groups don't seem to be going to jail in droves. On 02 Nov 2003 05:14:38 +0000 Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) writes: > > > Portscans on the internet are a fact of life - unpleasant, yes, but you > > can safely ignore them, and instead, concentrate on keeping your systems > > secured. > > that is certainly what the malware authors and users hope that we'll all do, > so listen up. just because many of the infected hosts won't be disinfected, > don't assume that there's no value in tracking and reporting them, or that > there's no reason to spend money listening to and acting on complains about > them. the internet's immune system needs *more* resources, not fewer. > -- > Paul Vixie -- Andrew D Kirch | [email protected] | Security Admin | Summit Open Source Development Group | www.sosdg.org
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