[ale] httpd probes

[ppolstra at gmail.com (Philip Polstra)]

I have been getting lots of probes lately.  A good number of them seem to
come from Comcast.  The ones like what you mentioned are from "script
kiddies" around the world who think they're hackers.  The kiddies probably
downloaded a script from somewhere that would check for popular web plugins
known to be vulnerable.

On 4/16/06, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>
> I keep getting probes for things that I don't have installed.  I'm
> guessing someone is trying to exploit a weakness in these things.  Is
> there any software that would sense, too many errors being generated and
> deny that IP address somehow?  I'd rather not have one of these probes
> find some new weakness, even though I don't have a lot of common
> software installed for it to find.
>
> There are probes for things like phpgroupware, blog xmlprc.php,
> index.php index2.php, awstats, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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