So I had my ports scanned!

Jimbo Kern

Bitdefender successfully blocked a port scan attempt. This is the first time I've ever had this happen. It happened while I was surfing You Tube and after rummaging through the event log....

(Portscan detected from IP=209.85.139.176! type=NULL_SCAN (0)

Look who it was:

Search results for: 209.85.139.176

OrgName: Google Inc.

OrgID: GOGL

Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

City: Mountain View

StateProv: CA

PostalCode: 94043

Country: US

NetRange: 209.85.128.0 - 209.85.255.255

CIDR: 209.85.128.0/17

NetName: GOOGLE

NetHandle: NET-209-85-128-0-1

Parent: NET-209-0-0-0-0

NetType: Direct Allocation

NameServer: NS1.GOOGLE.COM

NameServer: NS2.GOOGLE.COM

NameServer: NS3.GOOGLE.COM

NameServer: NS4.GOOGLE.COM

Comment:

RegDate: 2006-01-13

Updated: 2006-06-01

OrgTechHandle: ZG39-ARIN

OrgTechName: Google Inc.

OrgTechPhone: +1-650-318-0200

OrgTechEmail: arin-contact@google.com

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-05-28 19:10

# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

So does anyone know why Google would attempt to scan my ports and exactly what type of scan this was (null)?

Thanks....

Niels

Hi Jimbo Kern

I think for collecting your browser habits. Here is their privacypolicy: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html youtube is also part of google.

Or for sending information back for marketing.

Regards

Niels