What to do with a constant flow of attempts to login to my compuet?

[Yuval Hager]

On Sunday 03 January 2010, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> I just noticed someone bombarding my machine trying to login via ssh.
> 
> >From auth.log
> 
> Jan  3 06:31:48 s6 sshd[22774]: Failed password for invalid user
> amavisd from 202.138.142.216 port 35172 ssh2

In addition to moving away from port 22, you can run a script such as 
denyhosts - http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

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