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Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port
From: Tony Rall <trall () almaden ibm com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 00:16:50 -0600
On Monday, 2003-06-23 at 01:59 AST, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
http://www.lurhq.com/popup_spam.html "LURHQ Corporation has observed traffic to large blocks of IP addresses
on
udp port 1026. This traffic started around June 18, 2003 and has been constant since that time. LURHQ analysts have determined that the source of the traffic is spammers who have discovered that the Windows
Messenger
service listens for connections on port 1026 as well as the more widely-known port 135. Windows Messenger has been a target for spammers since late last year, because it allows anonymous pop-up messages to be displayed on any Windows system running the messenger service. Due to widespread abuse, many ISPs have moved to block inbound traffic on udp port 135. It appears the spammers have adapted, so ISPs are urged to
block
udp port 1026 inbound as well." How many ports should ISPs block? People still buy and connect insecure computers to the net.
Good point. In this case, stateless blocking of traffic to 1026/udp will block several per cent of the responses to dns queries (in addition to substantial other legitimate traffic). This is a denial of service for your own customers. Tony Rall
Current thread:
- ISPs are asked to block yet another port Sean Donelan (Jun 22)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port Tony Rall (Jun 22)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port Jeff Kell (Jun 23)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port Peter E. Fry (Jun 23)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port Christopher L. Morrow (Jun 23)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port Jared Mauch (Jun 23)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port Paul Vixie (Jun 23)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port jlewis (Jun 23)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port Christopher L. Morrow (Jun 23)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port Jack Bates (Jun 23)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port Paul Vixie (Jun 23)
- Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port Paul Vixie (Jun 23)