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RE: Increase in traffic on port 20480 and 6667


From: "Joey Teel" <joeyteel () cableone net>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:29:41 -0500

20480 is also commonly used by some multiplayer games for their server
ports also.

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Subject: Re: Increase in traffic on port 20480 and 6667


Be informed that 6667 is also one of the most common ports for IRC
servers 
to run on....

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From: "Kip Sr." <kipsr1 () yahoo com>
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Subject: Increase in traffic on port 20480 and 6667
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:16:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi there,

In the past few days, my IDS has been picking up
traffic coming from port 20480 (on Internet servers)
to port 6667 (internal desktops). Both ports are
commonly used by trojan horse programs. Has anyone
else seens this?

10/10-11:50:01.977897 204.x.x.x:20480 ->
192.168.0.199:6667
TCP TTL:255 TOS:0x10 ID:0 IpLen:20 DgmLen:195


Thanks,
Kip Sr.

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