Network Attack

[Andre1]

Since 19H00 I keep on receiving a message:
"Kaspersky Anti-Virus"
"Attenton! Your computer has been attacked from the Internet.
Network attack TCP SYN Flood from address xxx.x.xx.xx has been succesfully repelled."

I have looked up some of these addresses and it comes from Spain etc.

Does anyone else have the same problem?

 

[slimothy]

well syn floods are a DOS attack, so they're just flooding you with connection requests hoping that the requests get through eat up memory and crash your connection or computer, people don't do attacks liek this against random IPs because theres no fun in that so its possible its someone that doesn't liek you on a service where your IP is visible, like IRC. syn floods are easily avoided these days because your firewall can just straight out deny the connection and block the IP. They probably don't originate from spain, because syn floods are fake packets, so none of the info in them is reliable, the IP in them is spoofed unless your attacker coded the software himself and also happens to be extremly stupid. Hde your IP, use a BNC on IRC or proxy for places where you go and people can see you and your IP.

Actually you're lucky its a syn flood, loads of kiddies these days liek to ddos people, and distrobuted dos attacks are nasty, they just knock you off the net with brute force and the only way to avoid it is to be on a big enough line to handle the attack.

 

[MaD]

To add insult to injury, it all adds to your cap sorry

 

[RichardG]

Well yeah even once you dial up it, you using some of your CAP, Just make sure your Anti virus is up2date, Firewall in placeeverything. I once I had virus that was sending to all of IBURST ips epmap, like 400 or more, So i decided to format P.C once in well go to your Command Prompt and do netstat, Check what ips you connecting 2. you never know you could of had the same virus I had, Nortorn didnt pick it up nor any other Anti virus since my computer was infected.

 

[slimothy]

it wan't a virus, it was a Denial of Service attack, I guarantee that, for more information about DOS attacks and how to prevent them (well the preventable onces anyway) head over to TCPIQ

 

[RichardG]

I know what you saying, I'm just giving a point of view I had, I had virus sending EPMAP/tcp and other sorts of stuff, like those BOT IRC/TROJAN not sure what the name is

it wan't a virus, it was a Denial of Service attack, I guarantee that, for more information about DOS attacks and how to prevent them (well the preventable onces anyway) head over to TCPIQ

 

[slimothy]

irc zombie bots yeah

 

[MaD]

Prolly just a bad IP assigned to you, many of them going around.. could have been a spammer's IP which you had.