Re: the warez dudez won't leave me alone...
If you have a Dynamic IP assigned each time you log on, then most likely
someone else on your ISP ran or is running a FTP site, and his site was
advertized somewhere. I doubt it has anything to do with your wu-ftpd.
Note: Previous version of wu-ftpd have been known to have security holes,
but I still don't think that they could "smell" that you were running it
and trying to break in...
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
> Hi folks just wanted to pass along my suprise that the warez doodz have
> been trying to get into my *home* machine which is only connected via
> dialup ppp, and get this I use a dynamic ip.
> Here is just some of the attempts...
>
> Mar 17 19:52:02 joanrich wu-ftpd[788]: failed login from
> lis1_p16.telepac.pt [194.65.11.242], mac
> Mar 18 11:52:29 joanrich wu-ftpd[1421]: failed login from
> ppp-d1-76.orci.com [206.168.154.76], mac
> ...........and 4 more from this guy.............
> Mar 18 11:53:42 joanrich wu-ftpd[1426]: failed login from
> ppp-47.ts-8..nyc.idt.net [169.132.98.191], mac
> ........and 8 from this guy...
> Mar 18 13:04:43 joanrich wu-ftpd[1647]: failed login from
> mas01-10.dial.xs4all.nl [194.109.33.11], mac
> Mar 18 13:06:10 joanrich wu-ftpd[1648]: failed login from
> ppp-24.ts-4.la.idt.net [206.20.223.24],mac
> Mar 19 23:27:04 joanrich wu-ftpd[3617]: failed login from
> 206.230.175.91 [206.230.175.91], mac
> Mar 19 23:33:29 joanrich wu-ftpd[3628]: failed login from
> ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu [128.205.100.2],mac
> .......this guy was persistent, about 8 tries with different id, mac, Mac,
> warez and so on...
>
> Just thought I'd pass this along to others like me who might have wu-ftpd
> on their system to learn about it. I've not yet had time to think much
> about it till now.
>
> I guess this means that somehow someone has listed my machine on a warez
> list eh?? Kinda funny in a mosquito like way.....
>
> Can I leave these kidz a nice message somehow??
>
> Richard Morin
> qnc496@durhamnews.net
> ===============================================================================
> There are two major products to come out of Berekley: LSD and UNIX.
> We don't believe this to be a coincidence. Haahaaahaaheeeeeehooooooooo..
>
>
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