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by twdunshie

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I get scanned 20 or more times a day from people looking for pc's infected with the SubSeven Trojan. My firewall always catches the scans, and stops them at the door. But is there anything besides closing the door to stop these people? I always look at the ip, and it's normally pc's with a cable connection doing the scans. There has to be a way to "spank" them. Reporting them to their respective isp's is time consuming, and is most of the time a wasted effort. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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by crazylegss

spanking them is a no no....
just ignore it or permanently close that port and you won't get scanned as much...

by dkelloway

If your PC does isn't listening on one of the common TCP ports (6711, 6776, 1234, 1999, 27434) associated with the Sub7 Trojan, then you have nothing to be concerned about regarding the port scan/s.

If you're looking to deter/stop/prevent the port scans from being conducted against your system/s. There's not much that can be done besides configuring an upstream router/firewall/proxy server to not pass the connection attempts downstream to you.

In closing, I see more connection attempts looking for systems hosting filesharing apps (Kazaa, Morpheus, Napster, etc.), than those compromised with a trojan.

by admin

launch a massive denial of service attack against their ip's in some misguided vigilante effort and risk going to jail, or you could get all their nasty little ip's banned from every counterstrike server ban list you can find, or you could turn off those ports. Couldn't you just remain above their level (recommended) and ignore their little useless attempts grinning?

I get scanned much more everyday by the pesky enduring code red scanners. Should I "spank" all those ip's too?

by gmn17

You should always report a hacker. It has been my experience 99 times out of a hundred that the ISP or network admin will do something about it. Especially if you have a professional and competent message for them to respond to. I have a teenage sonwho is a hacker magnet and I have effectively stopped hundreds of them, even the ones from Argentina(SubSeven Heaven). Now do I have too much time on my hands or do I know what Folder Options are so my computer works one hundred times faster than when it was first installed.

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