17-12-2003, 22:01
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Re: Merged - Port blocking
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Originally Posted by Dooby
Other viruses do use other vulnerabilities in other services ( 137 for example is one of the filesharing ports, which also has similar vulnerabilities ) but they are not variants of blaster, they are different viruses, ok, I maybe splitting hairs, but claiming that blaster can spread using different ports is just wrong.
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There is no filesharing on port 137 - it is the NETBIOS Naming Service.
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