jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Mar 18 14:22:10 CDT 2010
I would think you would WANT to keep that 14 year old trying to brute force your PW. It keeps him from more profitable stuff like "you have won the hong kong lottery" scams. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Doug Steele wrote: > Hi Jim: > > I have been using a Filezilla server for some time to transfer data from > clients. The one annoying problem I have is that I'll look at the server > screen in the morning, and some 14 year old in China has been trying to > brute force the password all night, getting kicked off on every third wrong > guess then logging right back in. I've never had a successful break in, but > it's annoying - do you have a solution for this? I can't limit the incoming > ip range as the server is picking up data from client computers which can be > all over the place. > > Thanks, > Doug > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Hi Gustav: >> >> Why not try FileZila...many of my clients use this package because it is so >> secure. (http://filezilla-project.org) >> >> Jim >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-VB mailing list > dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >