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Re: twinkie


From: bparis () SORRLAC COM (Paris, Bill)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:15:10 -0500


My ISP (dial-up account) always tries connecting to my box via AUTH (port
113) every time I send mail. There is nothing on my machine listening at
port 113. Could these 192.168.1.x boxes be sending mail at that time?

Bill Paris

-----Original Message-----
From: Vasiliy Kuznetsov [mailto:waso () NSTU RU]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 10:00 AM
To: INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject: twinkie


Good time of day!
There are strange things are happens in my local network for
an indefined period. I saw such records in maillog:
Feb 13 23:46:35 perfect ipop3d[23091]: AUTHENTICATE twinkie
failure host=[192.168.1.200]
Feb 14 08:37:13 perfect ipop3d[24749]: AUTHENTICATE twinkie
failure host=[192.168.1.141]
Feb 14 08:51:31 perfect ipop3d[24812]: AUTHENTICATE twinkie
failure host=[192.168.1.136]

As you can see they are from different hosts, running
win95-win98. What it could be?
            10x,
                    Vasiliy



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