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It may be as simple as the mail server doing "ident" checks... but Chris is right. Most of the Windows "Firewall" product like Zone Alarm and Norton's product are garbage. They give WAY too many false alarms to useful. Most people get tired of looking at the alerts and eventually disable them altogether. You've heard the story about the boy who cried wolf, I hope. - Herman Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Ronald Wiplinger (ronald@2bright.net) [021007 18:19]:
Every second week, my watchdog catch the IP address 217.9.113.69 doing port scanning on my system, and prompt every second week SuSE mailing list is disabled.
Is the mailing list server of SuSE hacked or why are these activities from there?
Your "watchdog" (whatever that is) is broken and should be thrown away.
Administrator, please answer in private mailing.
Sorry, public mail gets a public response.
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