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 <vixie@vix.com> wrote:
suresh@outblaze.com (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
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