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[Jason]

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.

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