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  • verb Present participle of portscan.

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Examples

  • PortScanning - We do not allow any kind of portscanning to be done on or from our servers or network.

    theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News 2010

  • PortScanning - We do not allow any kind of portscanning to be done on or from our servers or network.

    theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News 2010

  • PortScanning - We do not allow any kind of portscanning to be done on or from our servers or network.

    theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News 2010

  • Some experts, such as Vernon Schryver, consider such testing to be equivalent to an attacker portscanning the client host.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2008

  • When I last looked at my firewall logs, most portscanning crap came from China, so I blocked a bunch of Chinese subnets.

    doggdot.us 2008

  • When I last looked at my firewall logs, most portscanning crap came from China, so I blocked a bunch of Chinese subnets.

    doggdot.us 2008

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