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Name: danboy
Date: August 6, 2002 at 10:41:32 Pacific
Subject: msn
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Comment: i was in a conversation and my zone alarm said this:The firewall has blocked Internet access to your computer (ICMP Echo Request ('Ping')) from 62.7.2.58. as soon as it said that my msn username changed.???is there a connection between them
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Name: KaioShin
Date: August 6, 2002 at 17:27:09 Pacific
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Reply: A ping is when someone is seeing if the port it attacked exists. Sometimes its a proxy scan, sometimes its a hacker.
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