Syn Port Attacks and Jolt attacks can u help
I have been alerted 4-5 times a day about syn port attacks and joly attacks by McAffee. I have traced the IP address back to my ISP BT Openworld.8*.**4.*.*22 - 2*7.*4.**.4* amongst others. All are registered to the same organisation BT. I have sent more then a dozen e-mails to BT even to the person registered on the IP addys and they still continue to scan my ports and haven't offered any satisfactory response. I have had one reply from BT which insinuated that it wasn't BT but a virus. What can I do and why do you think they are scanning my ports?
Re: Syn Port Attacks and Jolt attacks can u help
Hi,
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[B]I have been alerted 4-5 times a day about syn port attacks and joly attacks by McAffee. I have traced the IP address back to my ISP BT Openworld.8*.**4.*.*22 - 2*7.*4.**.4* amongst others. All are registered to the same organisation BT. I have sent more then a dozen e-mails to BT even to the person registered on the IP addys and they still continue to scan my ports and haven't offered any satisfactory response. [/B][/QUOTE]
Well, firstly you should understand that is highly unlikely that BT is scanning your ports. It's a ******** of BT who is doing that. Secondly, if you're worried about that, you should send a complaint to [email]abuse@btopenworld.com[/email] (I don't know if that's the address that you used).
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[B]I have had one reply from BT which insinuated that it wasn't BT but a virus. [/B][/QUOTE]
Quite possible. A ******** of BT has an infected PC. The virus is trying to spread over the Internet, unbeknownst to this irresponsible user.
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[B]What can I do and why do you think they are scanning my ports? [/B][/QUOTE]
I think you are overreacting. 4-5 times a day is nothing, really. You have a firewall, these scans can't hurt you. I get hudreds of port scans every day, and I don't care. I react *only* if there is a denial of service attack, when thousands of packets from the same IP address hit my PC, which may result in a slowdown in my PC's performance. Port scanning is very common these days. This could be a wannabe hacker, a virus, a programmer testing his network application who entered a random IP address ... anything. Complaining about every incident would be a waste of time.
MrByte