Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Hi guys, and Holly, :D I'm on dial-up and try to watch my traffic and every once in a while I see a little blip on gkrellm. I fired up ethreal and started to sniff around. Parden the pun there. LOL This is what it says though which is strange. It's really the last two

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Dec 2005, at 11:17, Dale wrote: Well, I did go to the site but it was *after* I got the traffic. How did they find me to begin with? I assume it was just a random hit. Sort of like a shot in the dark. They just automate sending of these messenger service spams. Send them to

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
The majority of *crap* hitting my firewall (in Oz) comes from China. Use geoip iptables to block China for a more peaceful life. Its not as though there's any valuable sites there unless you have relatives or a reason to access something there! Taiwan and Hong Kong have also been suggested as

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Antoine
I have a Yahoo account. I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail though. Why not? I get about one spam from them per month but that means they let me access via pop. You can certainly activate pop in yahoo. Maybe you can't access via pop with hotmail but yahoo, gmail and probably most

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Steven Susbauer
FYI, the messenger service is disabled by default as of Windows XP SP2On 12/26/05, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Yahoo account.I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail though.Why not? I get about one spam from them per month but that means theylet me access via pop. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
W.Kenworthy wrote: The majority of *crap* hitting my firewall (in Oz) comes from China. Use geoip iptables to block China for a more peaceful life. Its not as though there's any valuable sites there unless you have relatives or a reason to access something there! Taiwan and Hong Kong have

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
Steven Susbauer wrote: FYI, the messenger service is disabled by default as of Windows XP SP2 On 12/26/05, *Antoine* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Yahoo account. I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail though. Why not? I get about one

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Dec 2005, at 4:51, Antoine wrote: I have a Yahoo account. I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail though. Why not? I get about one spam from them per month but that means they let me access via pop. You can certainly activate pop in yahoo. Maybe you can't access via pop with

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dale: I did download the file listed on their site but it is a .exe file. I have no idea what it does though. It's not like I can install it. LOL You can run strings on it, or have a peek in a hex editor... Where's my rope again?? I have a lot of trees. ;-) Dale :-) -d

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
darren kirby wrote: You can run strings on it, or have a peek in a hex editor... How I do that? What would I learn from it? hex editor? I think I saw that somewhere. O_O I thought KDE used to have something that I could view it with but since the upgrade I can't find it. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Eric Bliss
On Monday 26 December 2005 05:20 pm, Dale wrote: You can run strings on it, or have a peek in a hex editor... How I do that? What would I learn from it? hex editor? I think I saw that somewhere. O_O I thought KDE used to have something that I could view it with but since the upgrade I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
Eric Bliss wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 05:20 pm, Dale wrote: You can run strings on it, or have a peek in a hex editor... How I do that? What would I learn from it? hex editor? I think I saw that somewhere. O_O I thought KDE used to have something that I could view it

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:10:15PM -0600, Dale wrote Source: 215.146.157.191 (215.146.157.191) Destination: 205.208.159.31 (205.208.159.31) User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 44356 (44356), Dst Port: 1026 (1026) Source port: 44356 (44356) Destination port: 1026 (1026)

[gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-25 Thread Dale
Hi guys, and Holly, :D I'm on dial-up and try to watch my traffic and every once in a while I see a little blip on gkrellm. I fired up ethreal and started to sniff around. Parden the pun there. LOL This is what it says though which is strange. It's really the last two lines that matter