On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> Over the past few days my Mandrake box at home has been scanned about 3
> or 4 times through port 98.
It happened to me twice today, too; from two different IP addresses.
According to http://advice.networkice.com/advice/Exploits/Ports/ , it's
linuxconf, a script kiddie favourite. I'd get rid of linuxconf altogether
if I could figure out virtual mail; it's insecure and crap.
robert
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