Re: How to tell if a firewall alert is suspicious or not
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Re: How to tell if a firewall alert is suspicious or not

From: alfranze <alfranze@horizon.com.br>
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 23:14:23 CEST

Firefox is a browser of the Mozilla.
then, you can do the command line: tracert 206.13.28.12 and to know
what/where this IP (or any) is, if it really works....

alf

"Gerard Schroeder" <Gshroeder22031@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> How can I tell if a Sygate firewall alert is suspicious or not?
>
> For example, I received this message from Sygate just now:
>
> Sygate Personal Firewall:
> Firefox (firefox.exe) is being contacted from a remote machine
> [206.13.28.12] using local port 1258 (OPENNL - Open Network Library).
> Do you want to allow this program to access the network?
>
> How can I tell if this is suspicious or not?
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:08:09 2005