are some (or all) ports on your netgear router set to forward inbound traffic to your samba machine?
some Netgear NAT routers have a problem with a widely known backdoor, which allows administration of the box from the internet side by anyone who knows about this backdoor. (i.e. you may not be in charge of your router!) you may have to re-assemble this link, if it there is a line break in it: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/08/1319206&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=172 ...Niels Roy Souther said: > I have a cheap NetGear DSL firewall NAT switch at home. It is no very > good but I don't have any thing fancy going so it does what I need. I > have looked for newer firmware for my model of NetGear but I already > have the newest firmware for my system. > > While trying to tweak my NFS shares I found that there are hundreds of > samba log files from IP's outside of my firewall. These look like a > virus is trying to see if I have Win32 systems on my LAN to infect. > > I don't follow the Win32 viruses. What virus could this be? Is there any > danger to Samba system? I shut my home Samba down, don't need it there. > > Is anyone else having problems with Win32 viruses that just walk right > through their firewalls? > > Are there DSL firewall boxes that are better then this NetGear junk? > > My smoothwall at work seems to be blocking the virus. > > I have a copy of the Knoppix STD, I am thinking I should try it and see > what is happening. > > Roy Souther > www.SiliconTao.com > > Changing the way people do business. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
