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- verb Internet To
scan anetwork host in order to detect openports . - noun Internet Such a scan.
Etymologies
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His small but very amazing free programs plus his portscan firewall check are a true service to the world wide computing world.
SecureAble Tells You If Your Processor Will Support Windows 7′s XP Mode | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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His small but very amazing free programs plus his portscan firewall check are a true service to the world wide computing world.
SecureAble Tells You If Your Processor Will Support Windows 7′s XP Mode | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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For a while, I was running a portscan nmap against every host that triggered my TarPit Plugin.
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Those people for running some kind of anti-portscan tool that prints
Boing Boing: October 7, 2001 - October 13, 2001 Archives 2001
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You now have a million nodes on your network and there's nothing even a simple portscan could do to tell you that they were not physical devices.
Slashdot 2010
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Also a UDP and TCP portscan with fingerprinting is also a very good idea so as to find any NS server that might be part of a test system or internal exposed DNS server.
PaulDotCom Carlos Perez 2009
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I ran a portscan and it was listening on 2 ports. 2812 for ATMTCP and 40317.
random($foo) 2009
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Alternately you may perform a portscan from a second computer, ie
Planet Ubuntu 2009
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That being said are you trying to open this port to world or just to your local network? to the world. ok so i set allow all incoming connection under firewall if i run portscan again ..
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I believe you have probably been hacked via portscan, and ClamXav should stop that from happening.
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