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Re: Scans to ports 1090 and 1080


From: Erlend Midttun <erlendbm () bofh no>
Date: 17 Aug 1998 16:19:29 +0200

* Roger Marquis
| Has anyone heard of vulnerabilities on ports 1080 or 1090?  These look
| like straight scans otherwise.

Recent patches to IRC servers add the possibility of checking for open
SOCKS servers as there is quite a lot of abuse coming from such gateways.
Your logs shows more of a regular scan though.


| Roger Marquis


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