why would someone from IOWA telecom want to scan my ports?

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why would someone from IOWA telecom want to scan my ports?

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OrgName:    Iowa Telecom 
OrgID:      IOWATE
Address:    115 South Second Avenue West
City:       Newton
StateProv:  IA
PostalCode: 50208
Country:    US

NetRange:   69.66.0.0 - 69.66.255.255 
CIDR:       69.66.0.0/16 
NetName:    IOWA-TELECOM
NetHandle:  NET-69-66-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-69-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: AR.IOWATELECOM.NET
NameServer: HE.IOWATELECOM.NET
Comment:    
RegDate:    2003-07-31
Updated:    2004-06-01

OrgTechHandle: ITNOC1-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Iowa Telecom Network Operations Center 
OrgTechPhone:  +1-877-255-4837
OrgTechEmail:  noc@iowatelecom.net

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Is that your ISP? If so, question answered.
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Rack Fu wrote:Is that your ISP? If so, question answered.
no my ISP is SBC Yahoo

and Im in ohio not iowa
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Port-scanning goes on all of the time. No reason to worry about it. You are presumably using a firewall that is giving you this info...which is also preventing any real threats.
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Irie wants to see your cack.
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Jimmy Medalions wrote:Irie wants to see your cack.
I keep those pics on my office computer so when they fire me the IT guy will be like WTF?
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