Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls

date posted 18th July 2001 15:03

Yep, Zone Alarm flags when there is more then one port attempt from a single
IP address. That tends to be the giveaway of a script kiddy using a port
scanner against you.

Norman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Kellie" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 2:50 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls


> What do you mean "individual warnings"? Do you mean from different IP's?
>
> Martin Kellie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Beresford [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: 18 July 2001 14:46
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> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
>
> Jeremy
>
> Sorry if I'm preaching to the converted but a lot of
> warnings throw up by
> firewalls tend to be false alarms. I know when I first
> installed Zone Alarm
> it was giving alarms at about 5 an hour. A lot of the time
> it's something
> innocent. I tend to ignore individual warnings.
>
> Norman
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