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Re: OT: It can be a new virus?



Hi Scott,

Just to make an idea, the number of "attacks" from the last two
days is more
than 100!!! bigger than last week.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Ewing" <scott.ewing@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:36 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: It can be a new virus?


> People have been scanning netbios ports on peoples computers like this
> for years, I think the increased frequency might just be because of
more
> people getting on line, and thingking there some kind of hacker :)
>
> You don't happen to have a static ip address do you?
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan [mailto:dtoma@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:25 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: It can be a new virus?
>
>
> Hi Steven,
>
> I have NETBIOS port scan from all over the world, not from my
> neighbours. And it is vissible that they are a lot lot more than usual
> port scans. Sometimes they are more than 10 per minute, from totally
> different IP addresses
>
> They are reported by ISS BlackIce.
>
> BR,
> Dan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Edgar" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: It can be a new virus?
>
>
> >
> > > In the last two days I have received a lot of "NETBIOS
Port probe"
> > > on my computer directly connected to the Internet. It is
something
> > > like tens
> per
> > > hour.
> > >
> > > It can be a new virus?
> > > Anyone else have seen this on his own computer?
> >
> >
> > Not me, just the usual pointless portscans in my logs for the
last few
> days.
> >
> > There are a few stories about "mysterious traffic" on
the net for the
> > last couple of weeks from a worm the experts reckon is on the
loose,
> > but didn't see any mention of netbios.
> >
> > I assume you are on a shared (ADSL, cable modem) uplink of some
type,
> > so I would guess one of your neighbours is doing something funny.
Does
>
> > the
> source
> > of the "Netbios port probe" look like its coming from
the same subnet
> > as
> you?
> >
> > Steven
> >
> >
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