# I pit IP address 68.41.156.232 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 8, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342 "2004-01-08T02:08:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ryle\_Dup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ryle\_Dup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryle_Dup)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/21 "2004-01-08T03:37:30Z")
I bet if anyone calls fushj00 on this he’ll say he was exaggerating. ---
**Author:** ![fushj00mang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fushj00mang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fushj00mang)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/22 "2004-01-08T04:54:28Z")
Ryle Dup, C’mon, you know I never exaggerate ;). Seriously, though, I’m going to get ahold of a member of the Judge Advocate staff to see if there is any legal recourse for a successful breakin on my system (I’ve begun to start looking, and it seems that my comp may have been breached.) And if not, well, we’ll see how the trace goes. I may just spend a week on leave paying a visit to someone and discussing the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/23 "2004-01-08T04:57:48Z")
Just what was “breached” about your computer? ---
**Author:** ![fushj00mang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fushj00mang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fushj00mang)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/24 "2004-01-08T05:10:55Z")
I’m finding text files in ‘hidden’-read only folders buried some ten and twelve folders deep. They look like someone may have been using my freakin’ laptop as some sort of storage point. I can’t read them, as they seem encrypted (it’s all garbage on my screen,) but they’re clearly something that I didn’t (and to the best of my knowledge, nobody I know) put on there. Again, I’m going to pass 'em onto my Intel buddy and see if he can make heads or tails of it. ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/25 "2004-01-08T05:26:27Z")
I’ve had the same thing happen when updatedb was running with my fat32 drive mounted. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/26 "2004-01-08T13:09:43Z")
Fush, ya ever hear of a nifty little program called a ‘firewall’? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/27 "2004-01-08T14:31:18Z")
They used up their firewall budget in bombing Baghdad. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/28 "2004-01-08T14:43:08Z")
[ZoneAlarm](http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp) has a free version. Make sure you have it in “manual” mode, not “automatic”, or it’ll fuck everything up. ---
**Author:** ![jhinman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@jhinman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jhinman)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/29 "2004-01-08T17:41:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Boo Boo Foo \* > Hope that helps. You can contact them via [domregadmin@COMCAST.NET](mailto:domregadmin@COMCAST.NET) to take the matter further I suspect. \*\* Close, email your firewall logs and a short description of whats going on to [abuse@comcast.net](mailto:abuse@comcast.net). But the OP would be a lot more fun. ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/30 "2004-01-08T23:47:18Z")
Visit [grc.com](http://grc.com) (the guy who wrote Zone Alarm) and take the Shields Up test. Good tutorial on going stealth mode. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342/31 "2004-01-09T13:05:20Z")
Are you sure you don’t have an FTP server running? I was testing out something on my comp a year ago and turned on the built in FTP server for windows XP. I forgot all about it for a month. Next thing I know I’m hosting several porn movies, someone’s internet diary, several pictures of cats, and a bunch other stuff usually buried in 10 or 15 folders in! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ip-address-68-41-156-232/223342.md?page=1)