RE: Checking port scanning?

["Brooks R. Robinson" <brooks.robinson@rides.com>]

> just try porsentry, it's a nice scan detector
> but be carefull: if you use portsentry and nmap your owncomputer,
> you'll find
> numerous ports open you don't use the services as portsentry
> watch many ports
>
> On Thursday 22 March 2001 01:35, Lars Jensen wrote:
> > How do I check if someone is scanning my ports, or hammering a certain
> > port with requests?

You may also want to try iplogger.  Not only will this show ALL the ports in
use, not just the ones you select in portsentry.  Also, portsentry actually
listens on those ports it is monitoring, so if you nmap yourself for
security leaks, you'll see a plethora of ports open, don't freak.

HTH,

Brooks