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Title: PC Attacks
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Published: Sep 6, 2009
Author: My filters
Post Date: 2009-09-06 18:55:01 by Lod
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Poster Comment: My attack notifiers have been going nuts today. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks.
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#1. To: Lod (#0)
Please explain???
Yea, I get a "portscan" medium level attact almost every day. Once in a while a "high" level attack too. But the xtra security keeps 'em all out.
Problems with virus, spy-ware, Trojans? Mark If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free - Americans who have been lulled into a false security (April 1968).---Ezra Taft Benson, US Secretary of Agriculture 1953-1961 under Eisenhower
Every day Zone LOG for Zone Alarm..and extra application from another source which actually tells you where an attack originated and what it is...is always going nuts so I quit looking at it a long time ago.
Using Sygate, Webroot, and IObit to keep the buggers out. IObit is the one reporting all the attacks.
You may be the victim of "Scareware". This is a particular sort of malware that is deliberately contrived by people who are peddling their own "anti- virus" software. The scareware attaches somehow and keeps sending panic messages that your system is infested -- using a screen that vaguely resembles the warning system that's already part of Windows or some other anti-virus program -- and it repeats itself practically everytime you click the mouse. It offers a chance to do a scan -- which, I think, actually embeds even more scareware into your system -- at the end of which it reports that dozens or hundreds of viruses and trojans made it past your existing defenses ... and now would you like to buy this guy's anti-virus program? About the only virus that program is sure to eliminate is that very scareware he infected your system with. Usually a conventional anti-virus/trojan program (and there are several good ones on the internet available free) can stop the scareware, but these guys seem to spend more time working up scareware that will beat the protection programs than on improving the protection program that they're selling with this scareware. There are some freeware solutions to scareware (About.com has a page on it). I used one and it completely eliminated my scareware ... but it also made my desktop themes vanish until I used a restoration program On the other hand, it could be a glitch that somehow spontaneously appears in an otherwise perfectly good anti-malware program on your machine. There was a time when one of my anti-malware programs (I use a number of them because, frankly, no single program can get all the malware) kept giving me alerts whenever I clicked a page of a favorite - and thoroughly healthy - website. Repeated scans with that and the other anti-malware programs came up with nothing, but I still got the warnings from that one program ("Anti-Vir") on every page of that one website. Finally I simply deleted the Anti-Vir program altogether and then reloaded it completely fresh (it's freeware and pretty good) and no more problems. Evidently somehow a glitch had developed in the old Anti-Vir program on my PC which was eliminated when I reloaded it using entirely new downloaded files.
Malware guys must have day jobs - zero attacks so far today.
#2. To: Lod (#0)
PC Attcks
#3. To: Lod (#0)
What type or make of security are you running?
#4. To: Lod (#0)
"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost." - Dante
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#6. To: Lod (#0)
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