Advice for someone in trouble

Dear all,

I'm a developer with a local government in the UK, who have a pretty
standard coporporate network accommodating various hardware and software
services.

I was suspended from work today following a meeting with the head of IT
because they have logs that my system appeared to be running somekind of
scanning software that over a period of hours interogated 1200 machines on
the network. There's no scanning software installed by the way, well none
that I know of.

Could anyone offer a logical explanation for this? I use a number of
development packages e.g. MS SQL Studio Express, Dreamweaver, VS2005 and
while I do download a lot of opensource development tools I can't think of
anything that would have given this effect. I do have access to various
server across the network and sometimes use nslookup etc...

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Infinite

Are you sure you didn't have any spyware or malware on your computer? Some
of the latest virus/spywarwe/etc can take atvantage of open port on your
system. They can also use vulabliities in Windows if you haven't updated
your Os with all the latest system updates. I suggest they run "Windows
Defender", "Ad-Aware", "Spybot Search And Destroy" and the most up to date
anti-virus software on your computer. That would at least tell them if you
have something hidden on your system. Also did anyone have phsical access to
your computer? they might have installed something you don't know about.

"infiniteuk" wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm a developer with a local government in the UK, who have a pretty
> standard coporporate network accommodating various hardware and software
> services.
>
> I was suspended from work today following a meeting with the head of IT
> because they have logs that my system appeared to be running somekind of
> scanning software that over a period of hours interogated 1200 machines on
> the network. There's no scanning software installed by the way, well none
> that I know of.
>
> Could anyone offer a logical explanation for this? I use a number of
> development packages e.g. MS SQL Studio Express, Dreamweaver, VS2005 and
> while I do download a lot of opensource development tools I can't think of
> anything that would have given this effect. I do have access to various
> server across the network and sometimes use nslookup etc...
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Infinite
>
>
>