Help, I'm under attack!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Sometimes the Internet really pisses me off. For the past 3 days or so, I’ve been under persistent attack from (party or parties unknown) the Backdoor/SubSeven trojan horse. Every few minutes – literally – my firewall alerts me to a blocked intrusion attempt. I’m assuming that no attack has succeeded, but I could always be wrong.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the various IP addresses these attacks come from. Most (but not all) of them are from AOL servers. The curious thing about this is that I don’t have a static IP myself, so either:

(a)somebody has me flagged another way
(b)the firewall is misinterpreting benign code as a trojan.
©Hi, Opal
(d)There’s a new Backdoor variant, and it’s made its way into the hands of some scriptkiddies.
(e)there’s a concerted effort goign on to break into any Earthlink dialup user’s system.

Any thoughts on this, peeps?

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The firewall at my old office would shut down frequently. We narrowed it down to advertising, and had to discontinue using Netscape Radio, Spinner, that kind of thing.

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Get a router.

I used to get hits on my firewall all the time. I got a router for my network that had a built-in firewall that automatically rejects unsolicited traffic and it all stopped. I haven’t had any problems with chat or IM. Had to do some config-ing for online games, but no biggie. Better than getting messages every 5 minutes.

If you don’t have a network, I think it would still work on just one machine, but may not be worth the expense.

Hope this helps.