DoD connections to MS Vista PCs

[Dude111]

Very interesting thread where a users claims that he discovered DoD trying to connect to his vista pc.

http://www.whitedust.net/news/3984/United_States_Government_Online_Watchdogs?_Part_of_the_war_on_terror?

Anyone running Vista here should check thier net connections!

[Tuttle]

There's nothing Vista-specific here, nothing to suggest that that traffic is anything other than a P2P client, trojaned machine probing for weaknesses etc, and nothing to suggest anything other than a machine on the Internet is receiving connection attempts.

Note the destination ports aren't shown, so we have no idea what that incoming traffic might be.

(That's a slightly less cynical version of my initial attempt: "Oh my god, a computer on the Internet is receiving connection attempts! :rolleyes:" :) )

[SuperSparks]

It's a shame that people can't be bothered to learn a bit about TCP/IP and the Internet before they start spouting all these scare stories :rolleyes:

[Train]

Seems to me a spammer owns his computer.