@Home Scans Own Customers
L. Taylor - February 21, 2000

Event Summary

@Home has been scanning its own customers to see if they are running news or web servers. This is likely a response to the USENET Death Penalty that was called against the company for the amount of spam coming from its networks. What this means is that the systems and network administrators working at @Home are using what is known as a network scanner to look for people sending unsolicited junk mail, a lot of which is often pornographic. Specifically, they are poking TCP ports 80 and 119 with a network scanner looking for HTTP proxies and NNTP proxies respectively...