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Firewal part 2
GreyDesk Started conversation May 25, 2003
Different port, same scenario...
This time it is port used by KaZaa - port 1214 - that has been probed over 2,000 times in the last 20 hours.
The thing is I uninstalled KaZaa last week, as I don't like its spyware getting too comfortable on my PC. So all my 'visitors' are now wasting their time having a pop at my machine 
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Trout Montague Posted May 25, 2003
No offence mate, but who would bother themselves with such a thing?
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SomeMuppet Posted May 25, 2003
Greydesk,
Did you have Kazaa or Kazaa lite?
Also haveyou run ad-aware from http://www.lavasoft.de ?
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pedboy Posted May 25, 2003
Not to be too much of a buttinski, but I am so here is a good link. It is freeware also to clean your registry, with out buggering much else up(if you are running a microshaft O/S). http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml
U200417
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GreyDesk Posted May 25, 2003
I only mention it as my firewall (a pity I can't spell that properly at all times 
) normally bumbles along at around 50 probes a day. Then all of a sudden it goes manic with a 100+ an hour 
Adaware? Great friends of mine 
Plus their cousins over at Spybot Search & destroy - http://security.kolla.de/index.php
That is the reg cleaner that I use. It's way more user friendly than anything else I've found. Which is particularly useful when you're dealing with an IT moron such as myself.
I only ever install KaZaa when there is something that I want to get a copy of - sharing my stuff at the same time as that only seems fair. As soon as I've got what I want I go back and uninstall the whole shooting match.
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GreyDesk Posted May 25, 2003
...and I forgot to mention the alt.privacy.spyware newsgroup, which is a damn good source of information
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted May 25, 2003
I can't remember if you told us last time whether these were incoming or outgoing blocks.
And apparently there's a brand new release of SpyBot with many useful new features... which I've yet to download
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GreyDesk Posted May 25, 2003
They're incoming. There is little from my PC that is outgoing, just the odd doleful cry from the RealOne events launcher trying to phone home.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted May 25, 2003
What about 'Run a dll as an app'? That one's often trying to get out, as is the Microsoft Q Manager when I boot up.
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GreyDesk Posted May 25, 2003
That little love is on an 'ask every time' basis. I check to see who is asking before I give the yea or nay.
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GreyDesk Posted May 29, 2003
Soon after the last posting here I rebooted my machine, and from then on the firewall pings dropped to the more usual 10 or so an hour.
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Firewal part 2
- 1: GreyDesk (May 25, 2003)
- 2: Trout Montague (May 25, 2003)
- 3: SomeMuppet (May 25, 2003)
- 4: pedboy (May 25, 2003)
- 5: GreyDesk (May 25, 2003)
- 6: GreyDesk (May 25, 2003)
- 7: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (May 25, 2003)
- 8: GreyDesk (May 25, 2003)
- 9: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (May 25, 2003)
- 10: GreyDesk (May 25, 2003)
- 11: GreyDesk (May 29, 2003)
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