<OT> Moving Outlook stuff to new PC

[David Bandel]

On 12/22/05, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 22 December 2005 17:25, David Bandel wrote:
> > On 12/22/05, Harry Giles <hg57 at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > We are going from W98 to XP.
> >
> > So you're downgrading then?
> >
> > In WinXP, select virus-root/Outhouse/viruses-for-all-my-friends/  and
> > drop the addressbook with all you enemies e-mail addresses there.
> > Then turn off you Linux firewall and watch your bandwidth drop to 0 as
> > Outhouse fills the pipe with viruses for all in your address book.
> >
>
>
> Heeeee   I vote this for "Truism of the year" award......


My border router routes for several C blocks.  I silently drop the
following ports:
42, 135,137,138,139,445,1433,1434.

Recognize the list?  Yep, all M$ ports.

Approx every 6 hours I zero my iptables counters because when I do
`iptables -L -nv` everything is so far offset if I don't the rules
don't line up nicely.  These ports have tens of thousands of hits
every few hours.  It's rare you can run a tcpdump on this router for
more than about 15 seconds without seeing this virus traffic (and that
obviously doesn't include e-mail viruses).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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