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[Frank Bax]

At 03:07 PM 12/8/04, Ed Hurst wrote:
>The curious thing is something I've never seen: logging of connections
>denied using what looks like my dynamically assigned IP from the ISP.
>That is, something between these two machines is attempting to connect
>to port 80 on other machines, but looks to be using my temporary IP via
>the ethernet interface. That's a whole 'nother mess to look at.


There are some virii that attempt to spread this way.  They are trying to 
exploit vulnerabilities in IIS using random ip addresses.