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Subject: Re: Script kiddies and their port scans
From: Pär Thoren (t98pthstudent.hk-r.se)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 02:41:34 CDT

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote:

> Checking the firewall logs I see various attempts to connect to rather unusual
> ports on my box - does anyone now what the following are?
>
>
> 27374
>
> 1243
>
> 98 - This comes up as TACNEWS in /etc/services

I have at least 4-5 of these scans for port 98 a week.

At least now I know it´s linuxconf they are sniffing for.

/ Pär

>
> 143 imap2
>
> Are the two unknown ones some BackOrifice port or part of the common backdoors
> left behind by these twerps?
>
>
> Stephen
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