On Monday 09 May 2005 14:14, Richard Crawford wrote: > Our IT guy tells me that my Linux laptop is broadcasting on port 31337. > And while I don't trust his competence, I am concerned about this. I've > looked around and it looks like 31337 is used by Back Orifice which, as far > as I know, is a Windows beast. > > I've added an IPTABLES rule to block outbound traffic to that port from my > computer but I still need to figure out what's going on. Anyone have any > ideas? Looking at the logs that our IT guy sent me, I realized that that was the time I ran nmap from my laptop at work onto my network at home. And since I'd asked nmap to check on that port, that's why it looked like there was a broadcast from that port to my computer at home. -- Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com
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