Damn you cable company

[minendo]

Dear Cable Company Customer,

We are contacting you in regards to your cable service. Our Network Operations Center (NOC) runs a test over our entire network on a regular basis to find computers setup to run as servers. Your computer has come back with ports open, indicating that it is running as a dedicated Internet server. Your computer must have these ports closed. Running a server is against the Cable Company Service Agreement (section 9).

Running a dedicated Internet server puts an unnecessary load on our network. Even if you think you are not using the server, you put yourself at risk to hackers and/or viruses, which could use the open ports to expose and control your computer. Once a server is circumvented, it can be used to hack into other servers in or outside our network.

If you are running a server-based OS, such as Windows XP Server or Linux, please keep in mind that these operating systems are designed for running dedicated Internet servers. As such, most of these OSs will open server ports on default, when the system is loaded.

The following is information about your account, and a list of open ports found on your machine:

Account #: <long number here>
IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Open Ports:


Port 21 - Response: 220 Created by Grant Averett
Port 80 - Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0

For more information on how to disable these open ports on your machine, you will need to contact your tech support for your computer. If you have installed the operating system on your own, you should contact the support line for your OS.

This is an important issue and needs immediate action in order to ensure no interruption to your cable company service.

If you are part of a business and need to run a dedicated server on our network, you may contact our business sales department to inquire about our Business Choice accounts.

As always, if you have any questions about this or any other aspect of you service, please call your local cable company office. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Thank You,

Cable Company Technical Services

Guess they found my personal FTP and test web server.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: minendo

Dear Cable Company Customer,

We are contacting you in regards to your cable service. Our Network Operations Center (NOC) runs a test over our entire network on a regular basis to find computers setup to run as servers. Your computer has come back with ports open, indicating that it is running as a dedicated Internet server. Your computer must have these ports closed. Running a server is against the Cable Company Service Agreement (section 9).

Running a dedicated Internet server puts an unnecessary load on our network. Even if you think you are not using the server, you put yourself at risk to hackers and/or viruses, which could use the open ports to expose and control your computer. Once a server is circumvented, it can be used to hack into other servers in or outside our network.

If you are running a server-based OS, such as Windows XP Server or Linux, please keep in mind that these operating systems are designed for running dedicated Internet servers. As such, most of these OSs will open server ports on default, when the system is loaded.

The following is information about your account, and a list of open ports found on your machine:

Account #: <long number here>
IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Open Ports:


Port 21 - Response: 220 Created by Grant Averett
Port 80 - Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0

For more information on how to disable these open ports on your machine, you will need to contact your tech support for your computer. If you have installed the operating system on your own, you should contact the support line for your OS.

This is an important issue and needs immediate action in order to ensure no interruption to your cable company service.

If you are part of a business and need to run a dedicated server on our network, you may contact our business sales department to inquire about our Business Choice accounts.

As always, if you have any questions about this or any other aspect of you service, please call your local cable company office. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Thank You,

Cable Company Technical Services

Guess they found my personal FTP and test web server.

Run them on odd ports. I doubt they do a fulll port scan.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: minendo

Dear Cable Company Customer,

We are contacting you in regards to your cable service. Our Network Operations Center (NOC) runs a test over our entire network on a regular basis to find computers setup to run as servers. Your computer has come back with ports open, indicating that it is running as a dedicated Internet server. Your computer must have these ports closed. Running a server is against the Cable Company Service Agreement (section 9).

Running a dedicated Internet server puts an unnecessary load on our network. Even if you think you are not using the server, you put yourself at risk to hackers and/or viruses, which could use the open ports to expose and control your computer. Once a server is circumvented, it can be used to hack into other servers in or outside our network.

If you are running a server-based OS, such as Windows XP Server or Linux, please keep in mind that these operating systems are designed for running dedicated Internet servers. As such, most of these OSs will open server ports on default, when the system is loaded.

The following is information about your account, and a list of open ports found on your machine:

Account #: <long number here>
IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Open Ports:


Port 21 - Response: 220 Created by Grant Averett
Port 80 - Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0

For more information on how to disable these open ports on your machine, you will need to contact your tech support for your computer. If you have installed the operating system on your own, you should contact the support line for your OS.

This is an important issue and needs immediate action in order to ensure no interruption to your cable company service.

If you are part of a business and need to run a dedicated server on our network, you may contact our business sales department to inquire about our Business Choice accounts.

As always, if you have any questions about this or any other aspect of you service, please call your local cable company office. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Thank You,

Cable Company Technical Services

Guess they found my personal FTP and test web server.

Run them on odd ports. I doubt they do a fulll port scan.

Exactly what I did with the ftp.

 

[Pheran]

Or look at your logs to figure out where their scans are coming from, and firewall off that IP.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Pheran
Or look at your logs to figure out where their scans are coming from, and firewall off that IP.

Heh, pwn the cable company

 

[ChickenStrips]

what were you doing with your own FTP site anyways's

 

[intogamer]

hehe Switch over to Verizon FIOS!!!

 

[Nohr]

Which cable company?

 

[ChickenStrips]

Originally posted by: intogamer
hehe Switch over to Verizon FIOS!!!

your not sposed to run a server on their FIOS

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: ChickenStrips
what were you doing with your own FTP site anyways's

There's legit reasons to have one. For instance, I used to run one until last week on my home connection. There was exactly 1 IP allowed to connect with a randomly generated ~30 character username and password. This was set up to allow backups of my website to be automatically sent to myself.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: ChickenStrips

Originally posted by: intogamer
hehe Switch over to Verizon FIOS!!!

your not sposed to run a server on their FIOS

LOL...try and stop us...