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    My computers ports were scanned by google ...

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by schoko, Apr 23, 2010.

  1. schoko

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    Anyone ever experienced something like that ?

    outpost firewall caught 4 ip adresses doing portscans on my notebook. each ip repeated scans on 7 different ports. each of these ip´s belongs to google.

    http://netzome.com/72.14.221.190
    http://netzome.com/72.14.221.136
    http://netzome.com/74.125.39.93
    http://netzome.com/74.125.39.136

    the scan happened about 5 minutes after i closed google maps. besides skype there was no other inbound or outbound connection established, and my webbrowser was also off, since i closed google maps.

    anyone knows what´s happening here ?

     
    schoko, Apr 23, 2010
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    Hmm , If you install PeerBlock you would not belive the amount of company's scanning your ports.

    But with PeerBlock you can stop them.

    http://www.peerblock.com/
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Apr 23, 2010
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  3. schoko

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    thanks tinderbox,

    i´ll have a look into that programm...
     
    schoko, Apr 23, 2010
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    hi, i have comodo firewall, doesnt that do the same thing?
    can this be used together with a firewall?
     
    gazzacbr, Jul 27, 2010
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