Ok folks....

[Vlad]

Who typed in ******

The FTP server is NOT PUBLIC. Any unauthorized attempts will be traced via ARIN and a complaint filed with the persons ISP. This is nothing to be messing with.

(ARIN = the American Registry for Internet Numbers. It links to other regestries so it goes world wide. You can't hide.....)

Leave the FTP server alone.

-Vlad

EDIT
Ok I though posting it's address was stupid.....

[carlsson]

Oh, it reminds me of a server at the university. That particular machine was not meant for public access, and anyone who attempted any FTP or other session got a very threatening message on screen, more or less saying that your attempt was logged and if you access this server once more, we will file a lawsuit (or at least call the police). And that was against students at the same Uni!

Often, IP lookup may end somewhere in the far-east Asia, and you have little luck getting through to the ISP - like they care anyway. Even more serious/successful hacks or spams are often waste of time trying to trace down once the traces point to that part of the world. No, I'm not saying this from a racistic or otherwise hostile point of view, just my and other people's experience.

As long as no successful breakthrough entries have been made and no stuff damaged, I think you can file away and ignore sporadic attempts. The chance that whoever is trying to access your server is reading here and takes note is rather small, I'd say.

[Vlad]

The attempts were coming from my own ISP. I live across the street. I'll go to the office an scream if I have to. ARIN gives the ISP phone number too so as long as its in the US, they will be hearing about it.....

-V

[Micom 2000]

Well I accessed your site again today after reading that you were shutting it down on FEB 10. I thought that I might download any programs which could prove useful as you said in the notice. I was confronted by a very rude notice warning about the perils of trespassing and that my ISP address was noted should assume prosecution should I do it again.

While I can understand concerns against malicious hackers, IT has got where it is today because of the friendlyness of BBS's, Usenet, Web pages and their sponsors, and forums like this. The Internet doesn't need Patriot-Act-like security because the US experienced something like 7/11 that has been happening in most countries in the world for decades, many times sponsored by US governments.

Lawrence

[Terry Yager]

Watch it Lawrence...you don't wanna cross the "Topic Police" here with such commentary.

--T

[Erik]

Watch it Lawrence...you don't wanna cross the "Topic Police" here with such commentary.

Hehe. This is the rants area, isn't it?

Actually I'm thinking we should all back off of vlad a bit. Things have been rough around here lately and I'd like that to stop. . .

Please.

Erik

[Micom 2000]

I posted that before I read Vlad's other post. As Emily Ratella would say...

"Never Mind"

But as for you M. BRUTEman, bow your head and cry.

But don't quit the VC forum, please mister, please. You bring pleasure to my life. And also info, that priceless commodity. Not that I can sell it.

L.

[Vlad]

?????

All I did was rant about some moron in the same town as I am in typing the username "Administrator" and then random passwords trying to getinto the FTP server. Administrator isint even a login. Now some guy from China has done tha same thing. WITH THE NEW DOMAIN NAME!! I have the new domain name for all of 6 hours and one person made an attempt at the HTTP server and another at the FTP server. Wow, thats got to be a record.....

I'm gonna pretend I didn't see those other posts.....

-V

P.S.
The site left eairly because the Domain Name was taken back by the DNS Redirector people.

[Terry Yager]

Ha! Even I know that nobody ever uses the name 'administrator' for root access. It's just too many letters to type-in all at once. (Let's hope the script-kiddies don't discover the abbreviation, or my network will be vulnerable).

--T

[Vlad]

The FTP server doesin't HAVE any built in accounts. You have to make them. The only way to get Administrator access is to physically be at the Server console it self. Yay Security!

-V

[carlsson]

As I wrote, singleton attempts can be dismissed. If you get a lot of attempts, and several from the same range of IP, you have the rights to be worried and go ballistic. But if you know you have top class security and keep an eye on various security bulletins reporting flaws (sometimes after they have been compromised, though), you should be pretty OK and after a while can point a finger towards the log of failed attempts and make an evil laugh. At least until the failed attempts increase in volume so they become a DoS attack. :x

[Vlad]

I'm not really angry, more or less amused be the last 2. I have had the new Domain Name for only like 7-8 hours now, yet 2 people managed to find it and attepmt something. I just found it strange, and slightly amuseing....

As for DoS attacks the firewall and Router make that next to impossable. Almost.

No access for you! NEXT!

-V