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

[shayne]

You should be able to turn these off via services or sumfin. Failing that ,
zonealarm should to
the trick nicely (Can mangle lan stuff occasionally)
----- Original Message -----
From: Dion <tenzero at iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Has anyone else seen a flurry of Windows probes
recently?


> 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:
> >
> >
> >>I'm pretty sure it's Windows UDP messanger service spam. A highly evil
> >>thing indeed.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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 :).
> >
> >A quick google seems to point to a link with Bugbear as a source.
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
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incompetence." - Napoleon Bonaparte
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