A few days ago my computer was being port scanned. I was told to not worry about it by several of the good..?

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people of Yahoo Answers. Well now I am being scanned from the same address repeatedly. The address is 73.73.73.77. I could really use someone's knowhow.

Answer 1

Well what do we know about that IP address....
At the bottom of my answer is the results on it....

so its owned by comcast which may suggest that the person performing the scan is a home user.
But that home user could be unknowingly doing this as such is how many trojan viruses work. Either way it aint microsoft or any legitimate company attempting to do an update - it's bad news bears.
One theory is that your IP address has found it's way onto a hackers IP list.
Renewing your IP is a good place to begin.
How to do this depends on what type of service you have.
Next is going to be running a thorough virus scan of your own.

Could anyone be doing the following:
going to really shady porno site...
going to hacking/warez sites......
using a p2p client to share copyright media.....

Cause if so - once you clean off the problem it will just start all over again........


best of luck.


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CustName: Comcast IP Services L.L.C.
Address: 1800 Bishops Gate Blvd
City: Mt Laurel
StateProv: NJ
PostalCode: 08054
Country: US
RegDate: 2006-01-05
Updated: 2006-01-05
NetRange: 73.72.0.0 - 73.73.255.255
CIDR: 73.72.0.0/15
NetName: SFBA-CDM-2
NetHandle: NET-73-72-0-0-1
Parent: NET-73-0-0-0-1
NetType: Reassigned
Comment:
RegDate: 2006-01-05
Updated: 2006-01-05
RAbuseHandle: NAPO-ARIN
RAbuseName: Network Abuse and Policy Observance
RAbusePhone: 1-856-317-7272
RAbuseEmail: [e-mail]

Answer 2

it originates in san fran, california ( at least thats were the trace hits a firewall, and or offline computer)

when a computer talks to another computer it does so through a port.
for example
http:// goes through port 80
email through 21
and so on

when someone scans your ports, they are looking for one that is open, most likely for the purpose of sending or receiving something from you.

Just scanning isn't a problem,
the problem exists when there is an open port.
then they have an "in" to your computer.

now, since you know someone was port scanning you,
that means you have some kinda software protection.
unless you are running a server like limewire, napster, bit torrent, ( any of the "file sharing" programs)
you shouldn't have a problem.

those programs open a huge hole in any firewall.

if you want,
check out visual route,
its aprogram to do easy traces
demo is free.....
next time you are scanned,
trace them right away.

Answer 3

someone sent you a trojan, or you visited a website with one on it. if you're being port scanned then hackers are trying to get into your computer to use it illegally through your broadband connection. What I recommend to do is unplug the computer from the modem when you are not online, and getting an anti virus program and use it. Also set your firewall higher

Answer 4

I'd worry about that if I was you. You need to disconnect your Ethernet cable if you're on cat5 cable or if you're on wifi, disconnect from the wifi source immediately after you find out you're being scanned.

later on and after the scanning threat is disseminated, you may want to invest in a nice firewall to protect all of your ports. there are plenty of them out there both open source and commercial for every type of operating system.