Carl, On Saturday 04 February 2006 21:31, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sunday 05 February 2006 00:00, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Is there something I can do to find out what kind of traffic is going on. Perhaps somebody who is trying to get access to my computer?
When you're logged into Skype, your system is essentially attached to a p2p network. So, even when you're not engaged in a call, traffic on that network is passing through your system. To confirm this, you can log out and close Skype to see if the network activity drops off. If you log back on and the activity reappears, that answers your question. If you want to take a look at the traffic, you can take a snapshot with Ethereal. "man ethereal" or Google for more information.
That doesn't make any sense. Why would traffic get routed through a leaf node in the network? It's not like a BitTorrent distribution system, all the traffic is point-to-point. There's nothing to be gained and much to be lost by sending voice call that are going between, say, you and me through Mr. van Nidek's host, right? The most likely source of ongoing traffic in the absence of anything initiated at your end is a remote login attack. They're common and are merely an attempt to guess passwords. If your passwords are strong, they won't get it. Occassionally you'll get attempts to exploit old buffer overflow bugs in various Web servers, but since those are growing ever less common, the amount of attempts to use them seems to be dropping as well.
regards,
Carl
Randall Schulz