Re: When does a scan attempt become a focused attack?

[Ivan Hernandez <ivan.hernandez () globalsis com ar>]

Yes, blackice and other personal security firewalls for windows, that 
are what most script kiddies have, blocks your host if you make an 
agressive portscan and therefore terminating any communication in both 
directions, that is what you want :)

Byron Sonne wrote:

I've found that half the time things quiet down a little when you give 
them a good nmap scan back.

> > Although you could let the owner of the machine, or the ISP know that 
> > their
> > machine is performing a scan (they probably don't even realise it) or is
> > silly enough to use their personal IP to run an IIS vulnerability scan
> > *grin*


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