Car 54.106.2.233, where are you?

[alexpgp]

Wow. On the way into work yesterday, I stopped at the CompUSA in Clear Lake to check a price on an item and ended up walking out with a paid-for copy of BlackICE Defender, which had been recently recommended by a colleague. I installed it earlier this afternoon and have logged several suspicious scans already, as well as one scan looking for the NetBus trojan. As I am typing this, the BlackICE icon is flashing again, telling me that... I have just been the subject of three quick HTTP port probes.

Yikes.

Lee came by earlier this afternoon with her friend Jessica. Jessica's car was totaled earlier this morning as it sat parked in front of a friend's house. The two of them have taken off to a Celtic festival, if I caught the words correctly as Lee was going out the door.

It's nearly 5 pm, and I have to be at JSC in three hours... not enough time for a nap, but then again, I have the World's Loudest Alarm Clock, so I may try to get an hour's shuteye, starting in... about three minutes.

Cheers...

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[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

I've been using the free version of Zone Alarm (http://www.zonelabs.com) for quite awhile. It's amazing how much stuff it logs. Most of it is innocent, though.

Somebody's site, maybe GRC (http://www.grc.com), has a page that will (with your permission) test your setup to see what ports in can find and proble. Quite amazing how open we usually are.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I visited the GRC site and had it scan my machine. It being a Windows box, there really wasn't all that much to scan; most of the services that were interrogated for (ftp, telnet) simply don't exist, apparently.

Cheers...