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Posted by Jeff B on January 11, 2006, 1:04 pm
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Richard Steinfeld wrote:
> I've been using Sygate Personal Firewall(free version) for at least two
> years. Sygate gives me frequent port scan alerts that are always the same:
>
> There were thirteen of these scans within the last week. Most days,
> there are 2-3 scan attempts per day. My machine is only connected via
> DSL when it's on; when I'm not using it, it is often off. Thus, there
> may have been more scan attempts than what's been recorded.
>
> All attempts originate from one "Remote MAC" and four separate hosts.
> Every event scans four ports, seemingly at random, except that there's
> some clustering around certain port numbers. Most scans include port
> 1030. The second most common port scanned is 1033. The remainder are
> mostly random numbers close to 1030. There is often one scanned port in
> the 4000 range.
>
> Can someone tell me what this activity is?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Richard
Google 'port xxx' works very well. In case, see
http://grc.com/port_1030.htm
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