[clug-talk] Samba logging virus getting through firewall

[Roy Souther]

I have a cheap NetGear DSL firewall NAT switch at home. It is no very good but I don't have any thing fancy going so it does what I need. I have looked for newer firmware for my model of NetGear but I already have the newest firmware for my system.

While trying to tweak my NFS shares I found that there are hundreds of samba log files from IP's outside of my firewall. These look like a virus is trying to see if I have Win32 systems on my LAN to infect.

I don't follow the Win32 viruses. What virus could this be? Is there any danger to Samba system? I shut my home Samba down, don't need it there.

Is anyone else having problems with Win32 viruses that just walk right through their firewalls?

Are there DSL firewall boxes that are better then this NetGear junk?

My smoothwall at work seems to be blocking the virus.

I have a copy of the Knoppix STD, I am thinking I should try it and see what is happening.

Roy Souther www.SiliconTao.com Changing the way people do business.

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