What is Trivial FTP?

[pr24]

Just got a message from my firewall that TFTP was trying to access IP adress 130.67.192.126.
Anyone who knows what Trivial FTP is and what it might be doing. I'm trying to grt rid of a virus at the moment, could it be related to that? I've never seen this message from the FW before...

 

[gpalmer711]

Take a look at

http://www.acs.unimelb.edu.au/internet/tftp/

for details on TFTP.

The recent Blaster Worm

http://www.ravantivirus.com/virus/showvirus.php?v=196

and it's varients use TFTP technology and it is likely that that is the problem you are experiencing.

As you are saying you have a virus at the moment do you know which one it is?

For details on removing many common virus' do a search on

http://www.symantec.com/search/

Greg Palmer

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Any feed back is appreciated.

 

[kiddpete]

The Symantec site can also scan your machine for viruses.

 

[gpalmer711]

The Url for the Symantec AntiVirus Check is

http://www.symantec.com/securitycheck/

Also check out

http://housecall.antivirus.com

often picks up more things that norton and others.

Greg Palmer

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Any feed back is appreciated.

 

[pr24]

Yeah, it was the Blaster! Once I was able to update Windows and remove the virus, the TFTP message was gone.
Should have figured out which virus it was earlier; after 2 minutes on the internet I got a message saying the PC will reboot in one minute. But it's my first virus ever, so I'm no longer a virgin...