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Originally posted by iriegirl
This morning, when I woke up and hit the puter to do some work, my firewall log popped up and told me that an unsolicited computer tried to access mine. It said it was using Gnutella. This continued about everyone 4 minutes or so and is still going on, with the above ip. I spent the morning on the phone with att..they take forever...here is an example of the log...
2002/06/21 12:55:01 12.239.146.24:2327 (12-239-146-24.client.attbi.com) 65.32.40.132:6346 Gnutella
It has truly been annoying. |
I be no expert on this, but it seems that
someone who runs a gnutella servent has your
IP address in it's queue. This might happen if:
1) You ran a gnutella servent in the recent past.
2) You are on a dialup and someone who had your
IP address in the recent past was running a
gnutella servent...
I.E. Someone's gnutella thinks that you are running gnutella. Happens all the time to me.
I ignore it. A ping is not a Hack and a Hacker
is not a Cracker. (although a Cracker will ping
first to locate you.) If your machine has
it's doors closed & secure, you are safe.
If your doors are open, gnutella is the least
of your worries.........
cheers
jd