Re: Is this friend or foe?

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From: Mike Tomlinson
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00

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In article <y2rFofA0$YG5EwIi@colbrien.demon.co.uk>, COB
<colette@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes

>Local address,service is (212.139.149.36,2140)

That's port 2140:  they're trolling for a trojan called Deep Throat
which you might have unwittingly installed on your system as part of an
infected software installation, etc.  Part of the recent ILOVEYOU
virus's payload was to attempt to install a trojan from a random
selection of four web sites.

If it's of any consolation, I too run AtGuard and see several probes a
week from nasty little bastards on BTInternet.  BT Abuse doesn't seem to
want to respond to complaints.

-- 
Mike Tomlinson
mike@jasper.org.uk

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