Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net> writes: [...]
And why, pray tell, would some unknown and unaffiliated person be scanning my network to gather information or run recon if they were not planning on attacking? I'm not saying that you're not right, I'm just saying that so far I have heard no valid non-attack reasons for portscans (other than those run by network admins against their own networks).
Before choosing an onling bank, I portscanned the networks of the banks I was considering. It was the only way I could find to get a rough assessment of their network security, which was important to me as a customer for obvious reasons. I'm not sure if I would have been impressed or annoyed if they had stopped accepting packets from my machine during the scan. :-) -----ScottG.