Re: Port 1080 probes from AOL

From: Suresh Ramasubramanian (no email)
Date: Thu May 31 2007 - 23:58:26 EDT

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    On 5/31/07, <> wrote:
    >
    >
    > One of my virtual web host servers have been getting multiple probes to
    > TCP port 1080 (socks) every day for months from AOL IP addresses.
    >
    > Is AOL known to be doing something relatively innocuous on that port? I
    > ask because I have portsentry null routing IP addresses that make probes
    > like this.
    >

    If they're [SOME HEX].ipt.aol.com rDNS'd IPs - those are AOL dialups,
    so probably compromised / virus infected nodes


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