Re: Fw: hwg-critique-digest V1 #311

Denise, my firewall was going nuts too as I indicated in my critique.  I
have no
idea why it would either.. I only know that the entire
time i was on your site I was getting warning pop ups.

I am including the IP address that was the culprit
and also the various ports that it indicated it was attempted
to access.  I have seen this happen on a few various domains,
mostly european, not sure why, I just deny access and go on.

I even went back to your site this morning and had the
exact thing happen.. Both times I wrote down the ip number.

I am not indicating that this is in anyway "your" fault this is just
something that happens when I visit some sites, I have never understood
it.  My firewall doesn't have a level of security that I can set, it just
is a good firewall.  I use it simply because our network was hacked
not too long after we got on ADSL.  Only after we were hacked did
our IP tell us that we should have a firewall.  It would have been nice
if they had told us before.  I am assuming this has to be a server thing.

I have actually found several sites that the whole time I was on them I
was given warnings, and I left because it was too much trouble to stay
and a concern as to why this site would do this.
Anyway below are the IP number and various ports I wrote down, you
can ask your IP again, they probably won't know why either.

------  Numbers Omited to the list for privacy concerns --------

Sincerely,

Nancy Whittley

----- Original Message -----
From: denise <denise(at)amun-ra.demon.co.uk>
To: <katsuey(at)katsuey.com>
Cc: <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 3:18 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: hwg-critique-digest V1 #311


> Dear Katsuey,
>
> Thank  you for your comments.  I am most concerned that the site
> appeared to be trying to access your computer.
>
> It is certainly not the intention and there is nothing in the pages
> which would suggest that something like this would happen.  I use
> a firewall myself and haven't experienced anything like this.
>
> I have spoken to the ISP who host the pages, Demon Internet, and
> they have told me that none of their web servers will ever access
> anothers for any reason whatsoever.  They suggested that its
> possible that the firewall security is set very high - and with some
> configurations anything other than plain HTML (like Javascript)
> would give the impression of "attacking".
>
> Does this sound reasonable?  Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> Denise

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