Re: [SPAM] The New Bible of Dating!! (x11) (fwd)

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 14 Feb 1999 18:19:49 -0500 (EST)


On 14 Feb 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > 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?

Wingate = horrid firewall for Windows 95 machines. Note that some nice DoS
attacks such as LANDS, NESTEA et. al takes them down all the same =)

Cheers,
Alex

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