[plug] Has anyone else seen a flurry of Windows probes recently?

[shayne]

I'm pretty sure it's Windows UDP messanger service spam. A highly evil thing
indeed.

----- Original Message -----
From: Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
To: Perth Linux User Group <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:10 AM
Subject: [plug] Has anyone else seen a flurry of Windows probes recently?


> Just in the last week or so, some of my servers have been seeing a flurry
of
> probes to UDP port 137 (one server got up to 3-4 probes per IP per minute
on
> Friday), and I was wondering:
>
>  * Has anyone else seen similar?
>
>  * Is there a specific cause (e.g. new Windows virus) that I can safely
>    attribute it to?
>
> Cheers; Leon
>
>