> > On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> > > Windows machines with 1080 open and/or 23 that answers with "wingate>"
> > > It's seems a lot of spammers are using somone else's to do their
> > > nasties.
> > Ah, that explains all the 1080 connects I've been seeing in my logs
> > whenever I log onto the internet. Looks like these dickheads are port
> > scanning machines for the wingate hole. =)
> 1080 is usually the SOCKS port - do Windows machines speak SOCKS, or
> is this some kind of (broken) firewall package?
Damn! I hadn't noticed that!
Wingate is some sort of Windows proxy so it is very possible it's
their implimentation of a socks type proxy. Interesting observation...
> -hpa
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> Microsoft Corporation [Reference at: http://www.kernel.org/~hpa/ms.html]
Mike
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