Re: [SLUG] scans

From: jeff (jdavis70@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 17:19:17 EST


Matt Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:32, jeff wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else noticed an increase in port scans in the last few
>>hours? I am getting around 40 hits an hour, almost all of them on 137.
>>Is there a new worm making the rounds or what?
>
>
> It's just the netbios name-service -- pretty normal on a public "LAN"
> like RR. Could be just a result of the average joe without any type of
> firewall protecting their Windows boxes.

        I was just curious because I usually only get a few hits per day, then
all of a sudden I started getting hundreds for no apparent reason. I did
WHOIS lookups on some of them and most of the machines traced back to
Asia and Spain, with a few in South Africa. The wide geographic spread
seemed to be the activity of a worm.

        Jeff



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