launches itself on UDP port 1434, and if the packets hit a vulnerable windows 2000 server Technically speaking, UDP Port 1434 is a SQL Server service-discovery

launches itself on UDP port 1434, and if the packets hit a vulnerable windows 2000 server Technically speaking, UDP Port 1434 is a SQL Server service-discovery port and it would depend on SQL Server (2000) to be installed to have any affect. My experience as a former SQL-Server consultant is that most organizations have been phasing out SQL Server 2000 for quite a while now, and only business-critical applications which for one reason or another are impossible to migrate to a newer version of SQL Server seems to be the only reason it is still around. This doesn't explain the sudden drop, but just thought I'd clear up what I considered factually incorrect ;)