MSDN used to be free so this was a common approach, but they re-org’ed all their programs so I think those keys are now hiding under the paid MSDN program…

You can still get Windows 11 Dev VMs for free;

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

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And you can get Evaluation keys for 11 Enterprise, Server 2022, SQL Server 2022, and System Center 2022.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter

It’s bots trying to brute force your SSH login. It happens all the time.

Just change SSH to key based only (disable password login) and move on.

I thought about that, which is why I had so many failed attempts.

I tried using my phone and work computer.