RE: Re: Solved !! "Girlnextdoor_" TCP Ports 1025/1028

["Levinson, Karl" <LevinsonK () STARS-SMI com>]

I would guess that this would be the result of some anti-adware or anti-spam
program the computer user had installed.  This resembles an attempt to break
connectivity with certain banned hostnames by resolving them to an invalid
IP address. I seem to remember at least one other person reporting this
problem in a newsgroup this year.


-----Original Message-----
From: Nikunj Virani [mailto:nikunj () netsurf co in]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:57 PM
To: Salomao Barguil; incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: [despammed] Re: Solved !! "Girlnextdoor_" TCP Ports 1025/1028


Its strange but i would surely like to know how the name "Girlnextdoor_"
came into your hosts file. Was it some application that did that ?

Regards,
Nikunj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Salomao Barguil" <barguil () yahoo com>
To: <incidents () securityfocus com>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:35 AM
Subject: Solved !! "Girlnextdoor_" TCP Ports 1025/1028


> Hi Folks,
>
> Thanks for everybody help in this matter.
>
> It was the HOSTS file on the local Win2k desktop :
> -------------------------------------------
> # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP
> for Windows.
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 0.0.0.0         Girlnextdoor_

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