Re: Dangers of P2P filesharing networks?

Re: Dangers of P2P filesharing networks?
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anon @ 21st Aug 08:40PM:
Re: Dangers of P2P filesharing networks?

said by Taniel :
I noticed that my firewall logs sometimes showed suspicious probing after using Limewire (even after days or weeks without running Limewire...

The most likely cause of this is 'Afterglow', ie. there are still some clients/indexing servers which have your ip address listed as a source for a particular file.

It is also entirely possible that you were being scanned but it is very unlikely that this was linked to your use of Limewire.
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TK421 @ 21st Aug 09:10PM:
Re: Dangers of P2P filesharing networks?

Maybe, maybe not. But I see much fewer now. What I considered suspicious probes were aimed at standard ports (21, 23, 80, etc.) not attempted connections to ports used by Limewire. Could be coincidence...
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