[LINK] technical question: security alert

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> Can someone please translate this for me? I believe the Destination
> is my IP because I looked it up and it's one of the Internode ones.
> But I don't know what this all means and if it's dangerous or if it
> means my firewall is working.
>
> offlist replies please to not fill up the list.

I'll post here because it is sort of interesting.

Port 6882 is a Bittorrent port.

It is possible that someone has cached your IP when it was a
  source for a torrent and they are trying to connect, or 
your system currently hosts a torrent file on behalf of yourself 
or some evildoer has got onto your PC and done it for you.

Block Port 6882 unless you need it!


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