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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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