Re: port 445
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:14:29PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> > Hi group,
> >
> > why is my system flooded with port 445 packets? I have learned that WinXP
> > uses this for SMB. Is WinXP so insecure that everyone attacks on this port
> > first? I have about four or five packets each hour on this port and few on
> > 80 and 21.
>
> It could just be a poorly configured Windows machine spewnig packets
> onto the Internet.
The problem with this particular poorly configured Windows machine is that
it has an awfully lot of different ip addresses, :-)
David
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