Ebay port scans your pc on every visit.

[Harold Hartley]

Not sure which port they scan to allow them on the inside of the firewall.

On 5/25/20 5:48 PM, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
> The only outbound ports open without concern are 123(UDP), 53(UDP), 
> 80(TCP), and 443(TCP). All other ports are blocked, outbound to the 
> web, on my system.
>
> If I read this, this would go around my guards, as they are 
> "piggybacking" on 443 in and out, right?
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander
>
> Sent from my Galaxy S10+
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2020, 17:12 Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss 
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org 
> <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     I'm not sure if anything can be done to stop port scanning of ports.
>
>     I'm really not having a big concern since I have 2 firewalls
>     anyway. I
>     have a firewall on one device and a firewall on my computer. So
>     the only
>     ports they will see is the one on my first device and not the
>     computer.
>     At least that's my theory.
>
>     On 5/25/20 1:17 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>     > On Sun, 24 May 2020 20:52:43 -0700
>     > Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>     <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> But I close up ports that doesn't need to be
>     >> open in order to make my system safe. You'd be surprised at how
>     many
>     >> ports are open that can leave a system open for attacks.
>     > When you say "close up ports", do you mean make sure there's no
>     > executable listening at that port, firewalling that port so
>     nothing can
>     > come in or out, or something else?
>     >
>     > SteveT
>     >
>     > Steve Litt
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