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Old 09-26-2000, 02:41 AM   #3
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Yeah, report em if you want, but there's no reason to put any effort into counterattacks, unless you just want to.

The way a firewall works is, the kid sends a request to your machine for info, and without a firewall your machine will respond. The firewall is actually eating up the requests and not sending a response, so to them it looks like your machine is either offline or doesn't exist.

No reson to announce your presence if the firewall did its job to hide your presence.

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