Re: [cobalt-users] PortSentry and Logcheck ?

["[RaQ2] Chuck" <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Kris Dahl wrote:
> on 6/3/00 2:00 PM, Mike Fritsch at mfritsch@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Has anyone installed
> > 
> > Psionic PortSentry 1.0?
> > or
> > Psionic Logcheck Version 1.1.1?
> > 
> > I am going to install them to improve the security of my RaQ3 but wanted to
> > get people opinions on the install and how valuable they are.
> 
> I am pretty damned sure the Qube comes with at least PortSentry on it.  In
> fact if you port scan a Qube2, it will add you automatically to the
> hosts.deny file.

That seems pretty useless. Do you think a hacker would launch an attack
from the same machine it launches the portscan from?