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From: fulldis at jackmccarthy.com (Jack)
Subject: strange traffic ?

More details are definitely needed, but let me ask a very basic question...is
it safe to assume that you're running some sort of AV software?  You're not
infected with a Blaster varient, right?  

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html


--- "Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh]"
<aditya.deshmukh@...ine.gateway.technolabs.net> wrote:
> Dear list,
> i am seeing strange traffic ... first something connects to 139 on windows
> workstation ... 2 packets causes the svchost to crash.
> and then i start seeing traffic to port 4444 from the same ip.
> 
> what is this traffic i am seeing ? any new kind of malware trying to open of
> port 4444 with the initial vector of infection on port 139 ?
> 
> 
> the machine is fully patched and protected by firewall from outside world
> with a sniffer logging all the data ie scr, dst ip and ports numbers ( this
> is how i know the above info ) 
> 
> and nothing suspecipous is there on the machine also ... since the machine is
> under heavy watch anything unsual would be caught immediatly.... 
> 
> 
> -aditya
> 
> 
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