Is ICMP important?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Woops! Your warning came about a half hour too late, William, but
I appreciate the tip anyway.


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, William Hubbs wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wouldn't go running nmap blindly on another computer without the owner's permission.  If you do and the owner complains to your isp you might get shut down for abuse -- they might think you are scanning the ports on the other machine to try to find a way to compromise it.
>
> I know this because a few years ago when I was running redhat linux (I think it was version 6 or so), someone got into my computer and did this and I was shut down.  Fortunately the isp let me back on after I talked to them about what was going on.
>
> William


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