Sprint broadband

[Steven M. Klass]

At 07:25 PM 1/12/01 -0700, Ken Bowley wrote:
>Despite all the horror stories, I have this service, and it kicks A$$ for
>where I live!  I don't do a lot of uploading, so I don't know exactly what
>that looks like.  I don't normally see any packet loss, and I commonly
>average over 400K when downloading the kernel source (I happen to have
>found an FTP site with a great route, let me know if you have a Sprint
>Broadband connection and want to know which one it is)
>
>I have received a phone call (answering machine got it
>unfortunately) letting me know that they had detected a "virus" on my
>system that was "eating network resources and degrading service for other
>customers."  I never did get any information out of them on what type of
>traffic they were seeing that led them to come to the conclusion that I
>had a virus. :)  When I talked to them on the phone the clueless
>tech(?) tried to tell me that the "virus" was attacking other
>systems.  I'm still waiting for them to explain that one to me.....
>

I too received the call of death, but was there to talk to them.  It 
appears all they did was a port scan and saw that you had an open port(s) 
(SSH, SMTP) which "is how most viruses affect computers".  After I picked 
myself up off the floor I said thanks and have a nice day.  As the SNL show 
said best "bu-bye"

Later

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Steven M. Klass
Physical Design Engineering Manager

Andigilog Inc.
7404 W. Detroit Street, Suite 100
Chandler, AZ 85226
Ph: 480-940-6200 ext. 18
Fax: 480-940-4255

sklass@andigilog.com
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