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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 2859231" data-attributes="member: 2810">I don't mind the questions.  Helps me remember how to explain things instead of just assuming everyone knows what I'm talking about  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> SNMP is Simple Network Management Protocol -- its a system for managing networked devices (computers, routers, pretty much anything computer related).  For example, there are programs out there that use SNMP to do health and status monitoring on all the servers in a network, etc.  Unless you are in a big corporate environment, there is no reason to have SNMP turned on anywhere.Many devices are badly designed, and come not only with SNMP turned on by default, but without any passwords or other security enabled.  This leaves them open to being hacked.  Hackers will set up bots to scan for remote systems with such a vulnerability and then try and crack it. Not terribly unusual to see something scanning, although ideally your firewall is stealthing all ports instead of just denying the connection.  It's the 'the only good scout is a dead scout' theory.  If a hacker tries to hit your system and gets a denial, he at least knows there is a device there and can try something else.  If he tries to hit a stealthed port, the attack just disappears as if there wasn't even a device there, and he moves on to someplace else.That 'ShieldsUp' site will tell you if your ports are stealthed or just blocked.  If you have any ports open from the outside (eg for bittorent) though, the efficacy of stealthing ports decreases.</blockquote>

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