554 is a port associated with rtsp... There is a real helix server vulnerability that may be associated with those probes... http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/75/334900/2003-08-19/2003-08-25/0 yeah: http://www.k-otik.com/exploits/08.25.THCREALbad.c.php int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { unsigned short realport=554; unsigned int sock,addr,os,rc; unsigned char *finalbuffer,*osbuf; struct sockaddr_in mytcp; struct hostent * hp; WSADATA wsaData; joelja On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

Anyone know what the source of the recent increase in scans of port 554 are?

http://isc.incidents.org/port_details.html?port=554

I cant find any related virus/worms using this?

Maybe its nothing, just some abuse complaints we got from port 554 scanning...

Steve

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