[CentOS] What is someone trying to do?

Sun Jun 12 02:42:40 UTC 2011
steve at echo.id.au <steve at echo.id.au>

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 06:14:36PM -0700, Jason wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> My Logwatch was very long today with 404 requests to the Apache server. I dont understand what the person was trying to do by what they were attempting to access. Can anyone explain a method to their madness? The whole things seems weird...

Taking one of the probed requests from your email, it turns up a hit for jQuery:

/jquery-1.4.4.min.js

So my guess is they're fuzzing/scanning for potential weaknesses in jQuery...

Steve