Galaxy S II ARP cache poisoning attack

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Whenever I connect my GSII to my Wifi, my PC pops up with a warning of an ARP cache poisoning attack from an IP address matching my phone. When I turn my phones wifi off the messages stop.

I am using ESET 5 btw. Anyone else had this? How do I fix it, and is it even worth worrying about?
 
mcryan said:
Whenever I connect my GSII to my Wifi, my PC pops up with a warning of an ARP cache poisoning attack from an IP address matching my phone. When I turn my phones wifi off the messages stop.

I am using ESET 5 btw. Anyone else had this? How do I fix it, and is it even worth worrying about?
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Very interesting little problem. Is it ESET that is popping up the message? Or Windows? Can you take a screenshot and post it here.
 
Only time I experienced this was 2 years ago when people at work connected their Iphones to our wireless network, wireless network was managed by a controller (controller managing 8 WAPS), once a iphone connects it starts sending out ARP requests and never stopped, bringing the whole wireless network down in under 10 seconds. We replaced the controller as the software was to old on the controller and could not be upgraded, we use Cisco equipment...

Our problem was to do with the Cisco software on the controller...
 
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I recently installed Eset 5 and started to get those same message pop ups every time I went on a webiste.

Googled it and apparently there is a problem with the version I have and I will need to update it. The newer version has the fix in its release notes

Maybe you have the same version. 5.0.93.0

Hope this helps
 
Reaper84 said:
I recently installed Eset 5 and started to get those same message pop ups every time I went on a webiste.

Googled it and apparently there is a problem with the version I have and I will need to update it. The newer version has the fix in its release notes

Maybe you have the same version. 5.0.93.0

Hope this helps
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Interesting, that is the exact version I am using. Will update and post a reply here as to what I find...
 
Yeah, Eset 5 has a problem with these "attacks". I get them from my router (10.0.0.2) when I browse the net.
 
I have Nod32 / Eset 5 with version 5.0.94.0, and have never experienced it.
 
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