Re: Portsentry issue/problem

[Rolf Kutz <kutz@netcologne.de>]

* Quoting Zelko Slamaj (z.slamaj@schrack.com):

> What I realized is:
> .) 'till now it is safe to leave it that way but
> .) those kiddies scan your computer and think that these ports _are_ indeed
> open, so you have more attack-tries, which results in longer log-files and
> longer ip-chains.

Plus you're open to DOS-attacks, possible exploits
against portsentry itself, etc. and it doesn't
increase your security.

- Rolf


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