[SLUG] Interesting problem

Gavin Baker gav at supercowpowers.org
Wed Nov 24 01:18:25 GMT 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 17:00 +0000, Phil Kershaw wrote:
> Hi All,
> <SNIP>
> Portsentry had reported an attack alert and dropped the offending ip.
> The offending ip was the XP machine I had just put service pack 2 on!
> The windows upgrade must have scanned the network and as far as
> portsentry was concerned I was being attacked. 

haha

PS, Have you seen the amount of crap a windows box floods the network
with when it's booted up?! Watch a tcpdump! Lets hope they use
rendezvous/mdns in the the new windows, instead of that stupid
network-neighbourhood crap. :)

Regards,
Gav 





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