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SubjectRe: [SPAM] The New Bible of Dating!! (x11) (fwd)
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H. Peter Anvin enscribed thusly:
> 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?

Damn! I hadn't noticed that!

Wingate is some sort of Windows proxy so it is very possible it's
their implimentation of a socks type proxy. Interesting observation...

> -hpa

> --
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> are, and will be, large numbers of applications available for it."
> -- Paul Maritz, Group Vice President for Platforms And Applications,
> Microsoft Corporation [Reference at: http://www.kernel.org/~hpa/ms.html]

Mike
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