NTL pinging ?

alarmed · Post by **alarmed** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 1:33 pm

Hi,

I have been on broadband with NTL for a year or so

however over the last few days I am getting continually pinged which zone alarm is picking up and not allowing..thing is this is happening every few seconds continually and it appears to be coming from a NTL ISP number???

Thorazine · Post by **Thorazine** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:15 pm

While I do not know for sure, There have been posts in the past from users of RR's service and Comcast's service that said their machines were scanned at regular intervals looking for services (FTP, TFTP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.) that violated the terms of their service agreement.

So my guess is that it's either a network eval by the admins or they are curious about which ports your system is advertising.

Is the traffic ZoneAlarm is filtering only ICMP echo requests (Ping) or are they trying to banner grab on standard service ports?

alarmed · Post by **alarmed** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:20 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply

they are all only icmp echo requests pings and all from NTL

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:53 pm

There is a worm out that is sending pings also. My log has been going nuts for 2 days also. I logged over 1000 in 12 hours yesterday. Maybe NTL's server is infected?

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/d ... .worm.html