deepblue

What you have just said has a certain ring of truth and I would like to believe that all these foreign government agencies, local/city authorities, colleges, etc. are just port scanning my IP address (or scanning a range of IP addresses).

However, just seeing if you have port 6346 open doesn't seem to tell the whole story because if my port is open then what business is it of theirs? It seems to me that the reason for port scanning is just not only to see if ports are open but to look for vulnerable PCs to infect with a Trojan, that way your activities can be monitored and a report sent back to the Trojan's originator.

Port scanning for port scanning sake makes no real sense for statistical purposes only, therefore I feel that there must be some other motive behind their constant port scanning activities.

Finally, I will take your advice and not get too alarmed by what my various logs tell me, now that I have PeerGuardian.




UK Bob