What this really looks like is you have some sort of spyware on one of the
machines in your network.
Check your windows boxes with Adaware - looks like they are downloading adds
etc.

dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Vogel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:42 AM
Subject: [SLUG] Unexplained traffic


> Thank you to those who provided useful suggestions for firewall
> configuration tools. I seem to have that sorted now.
>
> However I find that I receive about 20mb/day of  traffic that I can't
> account for.
>
> I do get "Possible syn flood" messages a few times a day. Could that add
> up to megabytes?
>
> I also have unsucessful access attempts to apache every few seconds.
>
> Here is a typical couple of munites from my log:
>
> 217.84.6.34 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:20:38 +1100] "GET
http://www.freemobiletunes.com/cgi-bin/arp/rankem.cgi?action=in&id=chartz
HTTP/1.0" 404 1341 "http://www.8ung.at/smartlogo/ringtones.htm"; "Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"
> 24.29.148.128 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:20:52 +1100] "GET
http://www.adpowerzone.com/scripts/diatok.js HTTP/1.0" 404 1225
"http://www.geocities.com/bassw20/index.html"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
5.02; Windows 98)"
> 217.227.90.195 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:21:06 +1100] "GET
http://www.gsmsitez.net/cgi-bin/topsites/topsites.cgi?larsi HTTP/1.1" 404
1286 "http://www.logotown.de"; "Mozilla/4.5 [fr] (Win95; I)"
> 217.227.90.195 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:21:33 +1100] "GET
http://utop.net/cgi-bin/utop.cgi?ID=/150 HTTP/1.1" 404 1172
"http://www.logotown.de"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)"
> 62.195.81.215 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:22:55 +1100] "GET
http://www.leadhound.com/show2.php?id=9236&bid=23967 HTTP/1.1" 404 1181
"http://www.mp3rock.com"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)"
> 62.195.81.215 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:24:30 +1100] "GET
http://banners.webmasterplan.com/view.asp?site=2358&ref=146341&b=2 HTTP/1.1"
404 1201 "http://www.die-80er-jahre.de"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01;
Windows 95)"
> 62.195.81.215 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:24:50 +1100] "GET
http://www.leadhound.com/show2.php?id=9449&bid=24968 HTTP/1.1" 404 1183
"http://www.rapworld.com"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)"
> 62.195.81.215 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:26:12 +1100] "GET
http://www.leadhound.com/show2.php?id=9236&bid=23966 HTTP/1.0" 404 1181
"http://www.mp3rock.com"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)"
> 62.131.12.251 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:26:50 +1100] "GET
http://www.1-click-clipart.com/bin/rankem.cgi?action=in&id=1cool HTTP/1.1"
404 1213 "http://www.top20cool.com/index.html"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)"
> 62.195.81.215 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:27:16 +1100] "GET
http://banners.webmasterplan.com/view.asp?site=2306&ref=145686&b=3 HTTP/1.0"
404 1193 "http://www.myownmusic.de"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01;
Windows 98)"
>
> Any ideas what the cause of this is and can I stop it??
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
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