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Re: Stormy P2P bot Sigs -- may be SKYPE ?: msg#00179

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Subject: Re: Stormy P2P bot Sigs -- may be SKYPE ?

Russell Fulton wrote:
> Hmmmm... My edonkey alerts have gone crazy recently. I know that at
> least some of the machines (the ones I checked ) are not doing any p2p
> file sharing, nor is there any signs of infection or compromise. All 3
> however were running Skype. Is it possible that changes have been made
> to the skype protocol which results in a lot of packets with 0XE3 at the
> start?

Looked into some basic skype pcaps and they shouldn't be triggering the
edonkey sigs. Could skype be using edonkey to pull updates or something?

Could you turn off skype on a few of those and see if the hits persist?
I'd definitely like to get to the bottom of this one.

Matt

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