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Geek Culture / Weird Port Access attempt from Apollo?

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BatVink
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Posted: 4th Nov 2004 17:18
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Ok, it's weird. I'm wondering if someone has managed to put some code into a post that's doing this.

The first time I open the "Competition Over" thread, or the "What Developer Facilities..." thread (don't know which, I've always opened them at the same time), I get the following Port Access attempt...

Quote: "Connection origin : remote initiated
Protocol : UDP
Local Address : 192.168.0.100
Local Port : 1305 (PE-MIKE - pe-mike)
Remote Name :
Remote Address : 195.188.53.175
Remote Port : 53 "


This is trying to access the Windows Controller application. The IP address is BlueYonder, which is my IP. Is this coincidence? I just don't know.

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Posted: 4th Nov 2004 17:26 Edited at: 4th Nov 2004 21:30
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Cant see anything obvious - any code would have to be manually downloaded.

What firewall software is causing ye probleme?

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Posted: 4th Nov 2004 20:13
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Sygate Personal Firewall. It's weird, it's happened 4 times now, just seems to be the first time I go into the thread in a day. would put it down to coincidence, but it never happens when I'm not using Apollo.

Internet Explorer and Win 2K, by the way. Yes I know, that may have lots to do with it!

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Posted: 4th Nov 2004 21:30
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Do you have any spyware installed by any chance ?

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Posted: 4th Nov 2004 22:24
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It sounds like someone's avatar host is trying to access something. A while ago, someones avatar, whenever loaded (I think it was jessticulars) would try to access an odd port on my computer.

Go searching around the avatars of that person's thread, and check to see if your firewall goes of when you look at the image directly.

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Posted: 4th Nov 2004 23:18
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If that was the cause, surely more people would have the same sort of thing happening ?

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Posted: 4th Nov 2004 23:26
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...only if they had a firewall set up to catch it.

By default, my firewall would block it and I would be none the wiser. I set it to tell me, so I could see how much "action" was hitting that port.

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Posted: 4th Nov 2004 23:30 Edited at: 4th Nov 2004 23:36
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This is what Windows firewall is reporting :

2004-11-04 15:32:24 CLOSE UDP 213.208.126.3 213.208.106.212 1030 53 - - - - - - - - -
2004-11-04 15:32:24 CLOSE UDP 213.208.126.3 213.208.106.212 3022 53 - - - - - - - - -
2004-11-04 15:32:24 CLOSE UDP 213.208.126.3 213.208.106.212 3025 53 - - - - - - - - -
2004-11-04 15:32:24 CLOSE UDP 213.208.126.3 213.208.106.213 1030 53 - - - - - - - - -
2004-11-04 15:32:24 CLOSE UDP 213.208.126.3 213.208.106.213 3022 53 - - - - - - - - -
2004-11-04 15:32:24 CLOSE UDP 213.208.126.3 213.208.106.212 2049 53 - - - - - - - - -
2004-11-04 15:32:24 CLOSE UDP 213.208.126.3 213.208.106.213 2049 53 - - - - - - - - -
2004-11-04 15:32:24 CLOSE UDP 213.208.126.3 213.208.106.212 3023 53 - - - - - - - - -
2004-11-04 15:32:24 CLOSE UDP 213.208.126.3 213.208.106.213 3023 53 - - - - - - - - -
2004-11-04 15:32:24 CLOSE UDP 213.208.126.3 213.208.106.213 3025 53 - - - - - - - - -

Whether its one of the avatars or something else causing the problem, I dont know - not terribly worried about it though.

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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 07:33
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Yes it's your firewall, i use nortons 2005 and have had the same thing from this site and some others i frequent there rare but sometime's, avatars and sig's give me these alerts i just ignore them.
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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 08:49
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Somebody's avatar is making a popup asking for a user/pass for dk3n.net (or dkn3.net, I forget) on certain threads.


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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 08:56
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Yes. That appears to be Mister Mold Rat and his avatar : http://dn3k.net/desk.jpg

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Why doesn't an admin change Mr. Mold Rat's avatar? That would fix problems, but you should message him about it first. Tonight was the first time I've noticed it. Damn annoying. I don't think he even realizes it though, as his computer is probably configured to use the correct username and password for the avatar.

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