User blog comment:GenLawrence/Hacking Warning/@comment-3242795-20120613020030

I'm having trouble commenting on Del's blog, so if someone could copy the following over, it would be great.

Those "scanners" are complete poppycosh, invented to scare people. The only way you can hack an account without a username and password, is through a hacking client, which not logging on will NOT protect you from.