Re: Possible security problem?
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Re: Possible security problem?

From: Alex <aejm+nospam@kent.ac.uk>
Date: Wed Jul 27 2005 - 18:28:17 CEST

Jim wrote:
> Fair enough, it was just a thought. If your router isn't set to pass the usual
> Windows ports (135-139,445) then it won't be that. Heck, it might not even be
> that if you *were* passing those ports..! It was just a guess.

A geeky thing to try would be to run netcat to listen on whatever port
it's trying to connect to, then edit your hosts file to point the host
it's trying to connect to to 127.0.0.1. You can then see what it sends :)

alex

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Alex Meaden
Technical Support Officer
Computing Service
University of Kent
Received on Thu Sep 29 19:59:35 2005