Re: I am sick of windows firewall
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Re: I am sick of windows firewall

From: Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>
Date: Wed Mar 22 2006 - 21:55:23 CET

V S Rawat <VSRawat@invalid.none> wrote:
> > The problems for home user's PC are not crackers, the problem
> > are the automated attacks running and constantly scanning
> > every IP address in every address space of dial-in boxes any
> > time.
> Who (what type of people/agency) is running those automated
> attacks?

This is very difficult to answer. Jesters? Scriptkiddies? People, who want
to attack something special and need a botnet? People who wanna have fun?

Yours,
VB.

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Received on Mon May 1 01:01:26 2006