Can "THEY" see what I am doing ????
I was wondering, if while doing port scanning on subnets can this type of traffic be detected? First, can this type of traffic be detected by the potential "victims" PC that you scanning. Second, more importantly, can it be detected by say Optimum Online or the Fed. I know a port scanner takes the range of IPs specified and probes each port to find one that is listening or "open". This sounds like it could generate a whole 5HI7 load of traffic comming from your IP. Is there someone out there watching these lines for this type of traffic?
I would be naive to think that there is nobody watching? This would be a perfect place for an anti-hacking element to find potential hackers.
:lildevil:
Re: Can "THEY" see what I am doing ????
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Originally posted by Gixxer
I was wondering, if while doing port scanning on subnets can this type of traffic be detected? First, can this type of traffic be detected by the potential "victims" PC that you scanning. Second, more importantly, can it be detected by say Optimum Online or the Fed. I know a port scanner takes the range of IPs specified and probes each port to find one that is listening or "open". This sounds like it could generate a whole 5HI7 load of traffic comming from your IP. Is there someone out there watching these lines for this type of traffic?
I would be naive to think that there is nobody watching? This would be a perfect place for an anti-hacking element to find potential hackers.
:lildevil:
Most definately any kind of scanning would be detected if the target is running any kind of firewall, hardware or software. I know that some firewalls have an alarm that sounds when it detects port scans, but even if a detection system like that isn't in place, if the firewall is configured right then the scans will show up in the logfiles. An administrator who knows about security would pick up on this in a heartbeat while scanning logs. Those scans would probably also be traced back to the source IP address, which would also show up in the log.
But yes, port scanning traffic will be detected unless the target is completely oblivous to networking security (not running firewalls, etc.). Running without firewalls these days is like suicide - if a network is not protected, sooner or later the network will be found and exploited.