What's "dropping source port zero packet", attack ?

[Paul Jacobs]

At 05:58 AM 12/9/1999 , Jerry Kemp - bind wrote:
>If you have end users who need to use legacy microsoft
>applications, I believe that there was an article which appeared
>in several trade rags stating that microsoft used port 0
>to transfer end user vital statistics from their local system
>back to microsoft.  This was activated when a user would
>do somenting like save a word document or a powerpoint
>application into html format.
>
>Jerry Kemp
>micro$oft free since '93 . . . .
>
>There is a remote access program called VNC that by default sets port "0" 
>as the port to listen on..



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