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RE: Strange Netbios connections


At 09:21 AM 8/11/2003, Phil Hall wrote:

"port 445 is also an attack vector for RPC-DCOM and 445 is only found on 2k/
xp / 2k3 as well. As a side note, ASP running on IIS links to dcom functions, and port 80 is also another vector. With the prevelance of the dcom exploit, i imagine the port 445 scan is a side affect of routine exploit fingerprinting from would-be attackers."

Phil,

I thought port 445 was the default for SMB or TCP, and as such is just part of the normal windoze background noise. Not so? I've seen plenty of hits on my firewall, but nothing that looks remotely like a scan, just mindless repetitive tries from single source IPs.

Pete



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