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

[Dion]

Yes I have seen a lot of this lately too.  I do some work from an 
unprotected Windows pc and it has experienced a lot of hits from those 
messenger popups of spam. Usually coming in on UDP 137. 

D.

bob wrote:

>On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:36 am, shayne wrote:
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>>I'm pretty sure it's Windows UDP messanger service spam. A highly evil
>>thing indeed.
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>There seems to be an awfull lot of unique IP#s spewing this stuff out. I'd 
>assumed it was some win virus/worm and ignored it (droped at firewall 
>anyway :).
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>A quick google seems to point to a link with Bugbear as a source.
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