I have heard from 2 friends on NTL who have had letters about spam emails (supposedly) originating from their NTL email accounts, (even tho they havent been involved in that activity). In both cases ive talked them through removing any malware/trojans, to stop NTL from d/c'ing them as stated in the letter.
Im half sure some new virus/trojan/malware is specifically targeting ntl connections through fake emails and/or ntl network port scans (to find unporotected pc's) .
I myself have had alot of unusual firewall activity, and alot of disconects from the BB service when using online games/messenger apps/web browsing.
Although im at a loss to say who/what is causing the abnormal traffic, i know it is there.
edit! hmm the relation to this this thread was supposed to be, that NTL must be probing/scanning ntl addresses (hopefully not the reason for my D/c's
) , to find out which ones are being exploited by mass mailer daemons, or other malware or maybe even p2p usage. as in the letters to my friends about it.
btw just as i was writing this i got 4 zone alarm blocked msgs. all from same ip but diff ports.
IP:219.150.118.21 on ports 12490,29503,13694.10596 all to my ip on port 1026.
funnily enough this is linked to a dos attack
hmm maybe ET is trying to get noticed