Is someone trying to hack me?

[Victor Tsaran]

Perhaps it is one of the search engines scanning.
Best,
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 3:54 AM
Subject: Is someone trying to hack me?


> Hi all,
>
> I thought I'd ask this, since I've been seeing some strange things in
/var/adm/kernel lately, and wasn't exactly sure what the hell theese were.
> Below is an example out of /var/adm/kernel. Note that I've replaced my ip
address below with "myip".
>
>
>
> Dec 28 20:04:32 linserver kernel: IN=eth0 OUT=
MAC=00:50:da:7c:fe:24:00:02:17:61:40:60:08:00 SRC=216.148.218.197 DST=myip
LEN=88 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=245 ID=16488 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=3 CODE=3
[SRC=myip DST=216.148.218.197 LEN=60 TOS=0x00
> PREC=0x00 TTL=56 ID=51822 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1192 DPT=21 WINDOW=5840
RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 ]
>
>
>
> So, is someone trying to hack my box? If not, then what is this stuff
anyway? It looks like one of the packates is a ping packate, but I'm not
sure. Yes, I have my firewall script log pings.
> Thanks for any explanations.
> Greg
>
>
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