Re: port 666 from router

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Pot
>Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:40 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [gpl] port 666 from router
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>On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 sendhere-tUwO18uD7CBWk0Htik3J/[email protected] wrote:
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>>hello . port 666 is being used on my routers. they r showin in the
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>firewall log commin from SW it self. then commin rite back in to port
>1026... anyboyd have a idea why this is ... never seen this b4...
>??????????????? ty
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>It sounds like a PC on your green network may be infected with a trojan.
>See http://www.google.com/search?q=tcp+port+666 for more info.
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>Cheers,
>Martin.
>http://martybugs.net
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It is probably a good idea for everyone to block port 666.  To the best 
of my knowledge it's not used by any legitimate service.  Also it would 
be a good thing to add to the next update file.

- Glen Dady
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