DIYbanter - Internet Security Warning!

sdfgehfffh wrote:
If you are currently using internet, chances are that your IP address
and port is insecure. You can know your IP address and Port here.
http://www.newsonfocus.com/ip/ .

Bye

SPAM. Your IP address is almost never the same all the time. It's mean
ingless w/r to how secure your system is. Anyone you contact gets your IP
address. It can't be helped; it's how the net works, by design.
Security of the Port depends on your firewall.

ALL of this informaiton is available elsewhere and free. To see your own IP
addresses etc, just type ipconfig /all into a command prompt.

This particular site is being spamvertised, and is looking for nothing but
hits and probably machines that can be hacked easily; who knows?

F'instance, here's what's easily available on this particular spammer:

Path:
nwrddc02.gnilink.net!cyclone2.gnilink.net!cyclone1 .gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.co m!newshosting.com!198.186.194.247.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!79g2000cws .googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: "sdfgehfffh"
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair
Subject: Internet Security Warning!
Date: 29 Dec 2006 03:23:38 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 7
Message-ID: . com
NNTP-Posting-Host: 125.22.0.88
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1167391425 9355 127.0.0.1 (29 Dec 2006 11:23:45
GMT)
X-Complaints-To:
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:23:45 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)
Complaints-To:
Injection-Info: 79g2000cws.googlegroups.com; posting-host=125.22.0.88;
posting-account=JkuRcQ0AAABmb0LlNudAiB_GKnJAhWli
X-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:23:44 EST (nwrddc02.gnilink.net)