Re: Port Zero

Andrew Simmons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> I had in incident yesterday (18 June 2005), 

I guess you meant July :)

>where a client's Windows box listed almost every possible port as open,
 >listening in the same way described above. Similiar netstat -an output
>as above. From my experience this isn't normal.
> 

ditto


> A few hours later the machine rapidly starting sending packets to 
> random addresses on port 443.
> 

I guess you mean "apparently random" in that you couldn't see a 
pattern... were the IPs probed running HTTPS servers? Did you get a 
packet capture? Was there any other traffic from this machine - ICMP?


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(speaking for myself only)

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