[Gllug] new types of spam

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 04:08:59PM +0100, Ian wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:50, Alistair Mann wrote:
> > Yes; I received one earlier, and a blog refers to an identical one received on 
> > the 20th. It looks to me like guerilla marketing for a forum site with 
> > non-terrorist mischief on its mind.
> 
> Possibly, but having nmapped that particular IP, it has 9000 open TCP
> ports. I would guess it has been 0wned.

That does not necessarily follow.  There are several "security" tools
they might be running which would cause that result from a scan.

-- 
Bruce

Hierophant: someone who remembers, when you are on the way down,
everything you did to them on the way up.
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