Mail Connection under Brute Attack!!! What are my Options?

[Attech]

Hi, I have a, stand alone PC, connecting via wireless router to Telkom - mail box with Telkom. When sending/downloading mail I think my connection is being subject to some kind of brute attack or excessive pinging, with the result the connection bombs out. I have firewall, on both the router & S/W on PC (Bitdefender). I have gone to one of these online testing sites (GRC-I think) and subjected my PC to their test and it comes out safe 100% - no open ports, does not respond to any ping/requests so I am in the dark with what I can do. Phoning Telkom is not helpful - cause for some strange reason you just cannot get past their first line call center. Seems like it a embarrassment for them to acknowledge they cannot fix the problem. My firewall has captured some strange IP addresses that are not SA.

 

[arf9999]

disconnect your adsl line for 10 minutes, restart your router and reconnect. You should get a new IP address. If you're experiencing exactly the same thing with a different IP, then it unlikely to be an attack. It seems more likely that your firewall is blocking your outgoing mail ports (SMTP - pro'lly port 25) or your software firewall is blocking the mail application. Check your logs.

 

[gregmcc]

You can't be under attack. You pop your mail off telkom correct? Therefore you aren't actually running a SMTP server open to the world so its impossible for someone to be attacking you. They might be pinging your IP with a DDos attack but its very unlikely. Like the poster says above reset your router and get a new IP. But chances are 99.99% its nothing to do with an attack