Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: [SPAM] The New Bible of Dating!! (x11) (fwd) | Date | 14 Feb 1999 21:32:29 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9902120721310.2093-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk> By author: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Gerhard Mack wrote: > > > Windows machines with 1080 open and/or 23 that answers with "wingate>" > > It's seems a lot of spammers are using somone else's to do their > > nasties. > > Ah, that explains all the 1080 connects I've been seeing in my logs > whenever I log onto the internet. Looks like these dickheads are port > scanning machines for the wingate hole. =) >
1080 is usually the SOCKS port - do Windows machines speak SOCKS, or is this some kind of (broken) firewall package?
-hpa
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