Port 119 Scans

From: Tom Laermans (tom.laermans@powersource.cx)
Date: 07/27/01 

Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010727225724.04a29ea0@mail.powersource.cx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:58:53 +0200
To: incidents@securityfocus.com
From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx>
Subject: Port 119 Scans

Hi,

I'm seeing a lot of port 199 scans lately (very many the last week) .. Is
there some sort of news server exploit out? Or am I the only one seeing this?

I'm on ADSL with dynamic IP so I don't think they'd be targetting me
personally.. I don't run a newsserver...

Thanks,
Tom

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