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  • Re: Hacking

    From Bcw142@46:1/138 to Al on Tue May 31 10:13:15 2016
    Interesting (that you were being hacked too). I guess that means 'they' had some time to hack. I found that private browsing on most browsers including firefox got through the problems they caused and when they stopped (or slowed way down) things worked normally again by themselves - I didn't need to reset anything. They slowly dropped the number of attempts per minute when they figured out they were banned and then slowed, and slowed and pretty much stopped now (5/31).

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  • From Al@46:1/161 to Bcw142 on Tue May 31 22:21:31 2016
    On 05/31/16, Bcw142 said the following...

    Interesting (that you were being hacked too). I guess that means 'they' had some time to hack. I found that private browsing on most browsers including firefox got through the problems they caused and when they stopped (or slowed way down) things worked normally again by themselves
    - I didn't need to reset anything. They slowly dropped the number of attempts per minute when they figured out they were banned and then slowed, and slowed and pretty much stopped now (5/31).

    Yep, 'they' do it to everybody. Sysops notice it because they have port 23
    (and possibly others) open but these port scanners will attempt to access anything they find open. Most people don't have any of these ports open so it is not a problem generally.

    Mystic handles the situation well though. I just had a look at my telnet
    server in mis and it is quiet now but at times I have two or three bots
    pinging but eventually they get blocked.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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