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Re: Stray UDP activity?


From: Jim Watt <wattjg () appliedbiosystems com>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 14:59:26 -0800

--On 03/08/2002 3:31 PM +0200 sheib wrote:

} I got some strange udp activity on my production machine. I am positive it's
} not due some of my doings; no dns servers running, no udp feeding daemons,
} etc. Snort detects no threat either. This occurs somehow periodicly on every
} hour. It's no udp scan. The very same ports are used all the time.
} 
} 
} <snip>
} 
} 05:56:47.258786 SRC.1028 > DST.38293:                           [udp sum ok]

Almost certainly Norton Antivirus Corporate edition out looking for
clients.  See (for example)
http://lists.gnac.net/pipermail/firewalls/2001-June/083825.html

Jim
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