On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:16:46AM -0500, Dante Mercurio wrote:
> squid proxy defaults to port 3128
> For a searchable port list try the one on my site: 
> http://www.ccgsecurity.com
> 
> The are probably scaning for open proxies in order to surf anonymously
> off you, or looking for an exploit. One recent one can be found here:
> http://www.security-focus.com/cgi-bin/vulns-item.pl?section=discussion&i
> d=3495
> 
There are also people scanning for open ones they can use to cheat pay per
click banner companies, I discovered this a couple of weeks ago when I found
a squid proxy that had been installed, but never used, was suddenly seeing
a lot of traffic loading only banner ads, but without loading the pages the
ads were contained in.

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