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I'm total newbie at tcp/ip and I was experimenting with Wireshark.
What this mean:
1824 578.194204 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy UDP Source port: 17500 Destination port: 17500
In data I can see that my user pc name is sent (happily it's a generic name): does this mean someone is trying to hack my pc ?
Update I have another one which is port 56712 and yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is the ip of someone with the same provider as me. Isn't this weird (OK I'm paranoïd :)) ?
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Do you use Dropbox or similar software? Apparently the port you listed is used by Dropbox...
http://isc.sans.org/port.html?port=17500
Edit: Looks like it could be someone elses machine with Dropbox installed looking for "Lansync Compatible clients" http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=16253
Mokubai
Posted 2010-05-13T12:26:42.350
Reputation: 64 434
Interesting. I didn't know that DropBox had this peer-to-peer sync capability – rupello – 2010-05-13T12:43:20.043
Dropbox do that :) @rupello: me too – Dzung Nguyen – 2010-05-13T14:30:35.660
Yes It's probably my Dropbox ! – None – 2010-05-13T16:58:04.667
But what about port 56712 ? – None – 2010-05-13T17:01:17.560
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If you do have dropbox this link shows how to turn that off if that is what you want
dbasnett
Posted 2010-05-13T12:26:42.350
Reputation: 459
2You watched too many movies. :P – Apache – 2010-05-13T12:46:32.820
Maybe you're right :) – None – 2010-05-13T16:57:41.093