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Somebody is scanning your computer ...

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Somebody is scanning your computer ... Tx2 01-25-2005
Posted by Tx2 on January 25, 2005, 6:12 pm
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Just had this message pop-up from my Sygate Personal Firewall when I
accessed Hotmail after clicking a link to email someone from within MSN
Messenger.

Somebody is scanning your computer.
Your computer's UDP ports:
1904, 2006, 2027, and 2122 have been scanned from 64.4.12.201..

I tried the same thing again, but no warning occurred.


WHOIS shows MS Hotmail
Why would Hotmail be scanning those ports?

Bearing in mind I am behind a Draytek 2600 NAT router, and running a
software firewall, I am intrigued to say the least.


Posted by Wolfgang Kueter on January 25, 2005, 7:55 pm
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Tx2 wrote:

> Just had this message pop-up from my Sygate Personal Firewall when I
> accessed Hotmail after clicking a link to email someone from within MSN
> Messenger.
>
> Somebody is scanning your computer.

Complete nonsense.

> Your computer's UDP ports:
> 1904, 2006, 2027, and 2122 have been scanned from 64.4.12.201..

Answer packets from:

wolfgang@arthur-dent:~> host 64.4.12.201
201.12.4.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer echo-v2.msgr.hotmail.com.

> Why would Hotmail be scanning those ports?

They are not, it is just your firewall placebo, that is a bit confused,
nothing more. So please ask the vendor of that totally braindead firewall
simulation why their piece of software crap is not only totally useless but
also misinterprets udp answer packets as an atatck.

Wolfgang


Posted by Andromeda on January 26, 2005, 2:15 am
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aiyo... no trust microsoft meh?

^_^



>
> Just had this message pop-up from my Sygate Personal Firewall when I
> accessed Hotmail after clicking a link to email someone from within MSN
> Messenger.
>
> Somebody is scanning your computer.
> Your computer's UDP ports:
> 1904, 2006, 2027, and 2122 have been scanned from 64.4.12.201..
>
> I tried the same thing again, but no warning occurred.
>
>
> WHOIS shows MS Hotmail
> Why would Hotmail be scanning those ports?
>
> Bearing in mind I am behind a Draytek 2600 NAT router, and running a
> software firewall, I am intrigued to say the least.




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