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RE: TCP port 5000 syn increasing


From: Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:45:50 -0500

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:18, Paul Schmehl wrote:
Of course with the cut and paste worms that are coming out these days,
who 
can say what it really might be?

That begs the question if it isn't becoming useless nowadays to count
port scans. Perhaps we should focus instead on catching the worms and
provide payload, or payload hashes. Otherwise, how would you pick up the
new strain of SQL slammer amongst all the existing SQL port scans?

Regards,
Frank

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