Doug Winterburn wrote: > So, to find out what I had missed (since they explained their innocent > port scans which I have been seeing for a long time had found this > illness), I called. I asked what in particular they had found (as I > really wanted to know how to plug the hole) and the techno-wizard that > answered (after 10 minutes or so) said that "it should have been worded > differently - you don't have a virus, but it could happen". So, > basically, they send out spam snail mail letters to cover their A** in > case their network might be compromised and the lawyers show up. No > matter that I try my best to "keep clean" - just send out the bulk email > telling me I'm infected! > I'm still searching (for an alternative)... Many web-based tools that claim to scan your IP for trojan/backdoors will report that you have a backdoor if your machine accepts a simple telnet connection on the default port!!! I guess they must REALLY want people to use ssh or something. Who knows. -- jkenner @ mindspring . com__ I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| To Build A Better Future. |