NOTICE - THIS AREA WILL SOON BE DISCONTINUED DUE TO LACK OF INTEREST
WHO is (Illegally)? looking into YOUR Personal Computer?
(A service of the Roller Sports Web International)
CLICK FOR "Port Scans" UPDATE - 9/22/2002
YAHOO! Search Engine Warning!!
Upon searching the Yahoo! search engine for information on a particular subject, Yahoo! apparently, without your permission will send your machine invasive code that will change your default search engine to Yahoo!.
Next time you boot and use your browser, the Yahoo! search engine will activate in your browser and cause a sub-menu to appear on the Left side of your screen for nearly all sites you visit. (11/4/02)
PORT SCANS (also known as "Internet Background Noise), is the attempt of Individals and Corporations, (Large & Small), to look into your Personal Computer without your permission.
While these "Port Scans" are mainly used by the Corporations to see who you are, where you go on the Internet, what you do there, how you use your Computer, etc. they can be used to access ALL your personal, private information you have on your computer, including your Bank Statement & Balancing program, Personal Email, etc.
You may want to look into buying a Commercial Firewall, or at least obtaining a Firewall program to stop these Port Scans, that ARE occurring on YOUR machine, without Your Permission, every day!
I don't wish to endorse any particular Firewall or Firewall program, so I will advise you to look into it yourself, if you wish to keep your property safe from Corporate spying.
There are Many good Firewall units for sale from any of the Computer warehouses, and you can search the Internet for a Firewall program to install on your machine.
If you do NOT keep your personal banking program or any other personal & sensitive information on the machine you access the internet with, and do NOT care about the Possibility that someone may access your computer with malicious intent, then please ignore this warning.
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UPDATE 6/20/02
Upon calling some of the Corporations involved, (AOL & Worldcom), they said that the port scans could be attempts to find "Open ports" on my personal computer, and COULD be attempts to hack into my machine for malicious purposes.
(Check out "Security Flaws in Netscape 6 on the preceeding page).
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The list of offending Corporations includes -
Level 3 Communications, LLC (NETBLK-LC-ORG-ARIN-BLK2)
1025 Eldorado Boulevard, Broomfield, CO 80021 USA, (Netblock: 65.56.0.0 - 65.59.255.255),
(Level 3 claims that they only maintain a Block of DNS addresses, and their users may be the ones using Port Scans. They promised to look into it).
EarthLink, Inc. (NET-EARTHLINK2000-D)
3100 New York Drive Pasadena, CA 91107 US Netname: EARTHLINK2000-D Netblock: 207.69.0.0 - 207.69.255.255
Maintainer: ERMS
Consult Dynamics, Inc. (NETBLK-DCAN-001)
1204 West Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
US
Netname: DCAN-001
Netblock: 216.158.0.0 - 216.158.63.255
Maintainer: DCAN
America Online, Inc (NETBLK-AOL-DTC)
22080 Pacific Blvd
Sterling, VA 20166
US
Netname: AOL-DTC
Netblock: 205.188.0.0 - 205.188.255.255
America Online, Inc. (NETBLK-AOL-MTC)
10600 Infantry Ridge Road
Manassas, VA 20109
US
Netname: AOL-MTC
Netblock: 64.12.0.0 - 64.12.255.255
(NET-DSL-NET)
545 Long Warf Dr. 5th floor, New Haven, CT 06511 US
European Regional Internet Registry/RIPE NCC (NET-81-RIPE)
Le Groupe Videotron Ltee (NETBLK-VL-9BL) VL-9BL 66.130.0.0 - 66.131.95.255
Videotron Ltee (NETBLK-VL-D-MU-421E0002) VL-D-MU-421E0002
66.130.2.0 - 66.130.2.255
MS Hotmail (NETBLK-HOTMAIL)
1065 La Avenida
Mountain View, CA 94043 US
Youngstown State University (NET-YSU1)
Computer Center Youngstown, OH 44555-3036 US
BG-BRG-SEEBACHER-GRAZ
BG und BRG Seebachergasse AUSTRIA
Cogent Communications (NETBLK-COGENT-NB-0000)
1015 31st Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 US
Century Telephone Enterprises (NETBLK-CENTURY-TEL-4)
4500 Millhaven Road Monroe, LA 71203 US
PFM Communications, Inc. (NETBLK-PFMC-BLK-01) PFMC-BLK-01
209.73.192.0 - 209.73.255.255
Cydoor Technologies Inc. (NETBLK-CYDOOR-209-73-225) CYDOOR-209-73-225
209.73.225.0 - 209.73.225.255
Verio, Inc. (NET-VRIO-157-238)
8005 South Chester Street
Englewood,, CO 80112
US
KNOLOGY Holdings, Inc. (NETBLK-KNOLOGY-NET) KNOLOGY-NET
Futureway Communications Inc. (NETBLK-FUTUREWAY) FUTUREWAY
64.119.96.0 - 64.119.127.255
Massawippi Communications Inc (NETBLK-MASSAWIPPI) MASSAWIPPI
64.119.99.144 - 64.119.99.151
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