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What does this mean?

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What does this mean?
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RE: What does this mean?
July 16, 2016 at 12:45 am
What always baffles me is why people feel the need to go to the lengths of virtually hurting others with viruses, etc.
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#12
RE: What does this mean?
July 16, 2016 at 12:46 am
Money.
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RE: What does this mean?
July 16, 2016 at 12:47 am
Back in the day people did it for simple asshattery
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RE: What does this mean?
July 16, 2016 at 12:54 am
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RE: What does this mean?
July 16, 2016 at 3:03 am
Judi, no-one is saying that this is related to wifi.

Is that ip the ip of your router itself?
Jump on the net and type whastismyip.

That is the ip of your router, not wifi.
Everybody's router is live to the world.
People do it to see what ports you have open for a variety of reasons, none of them good.
I can view my home sec cameras on my phone from the net.
That another port open which people may try to access.
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RE: What does this mean?
July 16, 2016 at 6:11 am
(July 16, 2016 at 12:45 am)Maelstrom Wrote: What always baffles me is why people feel the need to go to the lengths of virtually hurting others with viruses, etc.

Money and lulz, mostly.
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#17
RE: What does this mean?
July 16, 2016 at 9:01 am
(July 16, 2016 at 12:47 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Back in the day people did it for simple asshattery

I actually made a virus before anyone even knew the word.  The Radio Shack Color Computer 2 and 3 allowed a programmer to specify the memory range that a program would load into.  The super fun thing was that the OS was copied from ROM to RAM on boot, so you could overwrite the OS.

Much fun was had wiping all my buddy's pirated game CDs.  Big Grin

That was me.  13  year-old asshat.
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RE: What does this mean?
July 16, 2016 at 9:33 am
(July 16, 2016 at 12:33 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Somebody is poking at your HTTP and HTTPS ports - which are almost certainly not open - apparently from upstream from you.

This sort of probe is common as dirt.

I wouldn't expect your ISP is going to care.  If there's any firmware updates to your router, apply them.  It wouldn't hurt to review your router config.

I'm jealous. I want some common dirt probing.
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#19
RE: What does this mean?
July 16, 2016 at 10:03 am
(July 16, 2016 at 3:03 am)ignoramus Wrote: Judi, no-one is saying that this is related to wifi.

Is that ip the ip of your router itself?
Jump on the net and type whastismyip.

That is the ip of your router, not wifi.
Everybody's router is live to the world.
People do it to see what ports you have open for a variety of reasons, none of them good.
I can view my home sec cameras on my phone from the net.
That another port open which people may try to access.

I found it... What now?
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#20
RE: What does this mean?
July 16, 2016 at 10:10 am
So I just looked up the IP of the last "attack" in the log. It's coming from somewhere in AZ.

The original one in my OP has two different places: Arkansas and Massachusetts.

WTF?
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