One of the things discussed in this article is the scanning of peoples
machines to see if they are infected with something.

Reminds me of an incident in which I received an email from MindSpring
(at the time, ACTUALLY mindspring and not EarthStink) stating that I
probably had such a thing on my machine. I wrote back, asking them
what possibly made them think that.

Turns out, one of their criteria for determining a machine had been
compromised was if it accepted telnet connections (!) because of a
tendency for BackOrifice-using hackers to open a COMMAND.COM on port
23...

Technomage wrote:
> I would suggest reading this ASAP.
> http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm

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