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Unidentified Trojan?


From: rginski () CO PINELLAS FL US (Richard Ginski)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:35:07 -0400


First of all, I would like to thank all who have responded/assisted regarding this problem. It's nice to know I am not 
alone in "the struggle".  

Port 524 is NCP is used in Netware (IP implementations). I am trying to keep this in mind while also considering that 
numerous other ports have been attempted in connecting to 216.65.124.73 including ping and cifs. These connection 
attempts do not happen all of the time (happened this week then about 5 weeks ago). But when they do happen, it seems 
to be stimulated by a user powering up their machine and logging in. Also, I'm keeping in mind,  that we recently had a 
DNS cache poisoning incident which redirected us to....you guessed it: 216.65.124.73 (porn site).

We received many suggestions and will be pursuing many of them:

1) Contact the owner/ISP of the address space involved.
2) Run a personal firewall, such as Zone Alarm,  on the machines (with suspected trojan) to identify processes which 
are trying to connect to the address 216.65.124.73.
3) Run MD5 checks on the affected machines (with suspected trojan).
4) Check the BIND versions of our internal DNS servers


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