Correct me if I am wrong, but sounds like someone on that "little 98 machine"
is trying to run some sort of network scanner... perhaps getting IP's with
known network vulnerabilities to use some kiddie script later on?
tomas
-> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 18 14:43:54 2000
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-> From: "John Huggins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-> Subject: Windows 98 trying to learn about Windows Networks outside of our little
world.
-> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:38:19 -0400
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->
-> One of our Windows 98 machines ground to a slow pace today. Then we get an
-> email from our Internet provider essentially copying a message they received
-> from some outside person complaining that this little 98 machine was
-> exploring a whole range of IP addresses on the usual Windows network ports.
->
-> Any body heard of this kinf of virus? If not, can you provide some other
-> resource links to others in the know?
->
-> I know, I know. We should have been packet filtering our local network from
-> the Internet, BUT those on high demanded full access to the Internet; For
-> all I know they belong to the Flat Earth Society. Thus, I let them have
-> their way, while us few non-flat-earthers protect our individual machines
-> with things like Zone Alarm.
->
-> J
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