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This is probably not due to a specific problem with you or your account but a more general security sweep for possible exploitable holes in your security (the fact that your firewall spotted the scan is a good sign). It appears that some, like BlueYonder (look for scanner.abuse.blueyonder.co.uk in your logs) and @Home, have been scanning port 119 to see if anyone is running a USENET server which could be exploited. --------------------------- Relevant links: [URL=http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html#port119]Port 119[/URL] --------------------------- Relevant threads: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/20021112-1-005728.html]Why would my ISP be scanning my ports?[/url] _____________________ [internallink=4626]Emperor[/internallink] [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Tue 22-Oct-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=velvetrose]velvetrose [/url] on Sat 20-Mar-2004)[/i][/small]
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