I've had umpteen IPs knocking on this door yesterday. The router blocked them, so it's not a problem, but why that port? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090406/3bff0b5f/attachment-0002.sig>
Hi Anne. 2009/4/6 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:> I've had umpteen IPs knocking on this door yesterday. ?The router blocked > them, so it's not a problem, but why that port? > > AnneI thought maybe it was a registered port so I checked my reference: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers ) No luck there, sorry. But the list might be of use to you or others in the future. Regards, Andrew
Anne Wilson wrote:> I've had umpteen IPs knocking on this door yesterday. The router blocked > them, so it's not a problem, but why that port? >any chance you were running a torrent client, like to download the centos ISOs, which may have been using that port? also, who knows, but there could be some new trojan/worm that listens on that port, so the botnets are trying to find each other... its more common for trojan/worms to connect out rather than in, but almost anything goes in the malware world...
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:> I've had umpteen IPs knocking on this door yesterday. ?The router blocked > them, so it's not a problem, but why that port?It is related to Conflicker virus.