[X-Newbies] Hen-Wen

[Chris Walker]

Hi all,

More out of curiosity than anything else I decided to try the freeware
HenWen to see if my home network is being attacked.  They say a little
knowledge is dangerous, but here we go....   The log produced the following:

[**] [121:4:1] Portscan detected from 129.174.27.33 Talker(fixed: 30
sliding: 30) Scanner(fixed: 0 sliding: 0) [**]
06/24-12:34:23.411444 

[**] [121:4:1] Portscan detected from 84.53.143.24 Talker(fixed: 30
sliding: 30) Scanner(fixed: 0 sliding: 0) [**]
06/24-13:34:22.547937 

I guess I'm none the wiser but it does look as if someone is doing a
scan.  Since my machine is behind a hardware firewall how can this be so?
 Presumably HenWen can only scan what is happening behind the firewall or
am I wrong?

Could one of the experts on this list give me a rundown on what is
happening please?

cheers,

Chris