Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 20:05:08 -0800 (PST) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Mike Uttech <Mike@Zipoff.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>, Lawrence Sica <larry@mail.interactivate.com> Subject: Re: Port 137 hitting my server Message-ID: <ML-3.4.942120308.1653.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <19991109031211.EF813152E9@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 8-Nov-99 at 19:13, Mike Uttech (Mike@Zipoff.com) wrote: > This is caused by Internet Explorer 5. I remember running into this > annoying situation and after blocking it at the routers I figured out that > it was IE 5 doing it. I used to know why it was probing to see if NETBIOS > was running, but at the moment, I cannot remember it. It isn't just IE5; it seems to be Windows 95/98. My girlfriend's notebook generates them pretty much whenever it is running; and we've eliminated MSIE as much as possible on that machine in favor of Netscape. I looked into it a while back; and the consensus was that they are harmless and not even worth logging. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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