Is my computer being hacked?

Craig18Craig18 New
edited July 2007 in Science & Tech
Comodo Firewall Pro keeps reporting...


Numerous Inbound Policy Violation (SYN ACK)

Recent messages have been saying TCP incoming (Port Unreachable) or Outbound Policy Violation (ICMP Outgoing = Port Unreachable)

I got a message yesterday saying that an attacker had been temporarily blocked and a number of ports were shown.

Comments

  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited July 2007
    If your seeing less then thousands of warnings for this no.


    If you are someones targeting you with a syn flood (a type of denial of service attack).
  • Craig18Craig18 New
    edited July 2007
    Is Comodo poweful enough to prevent them access?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Depends on how good they are.

    It is prudent to state, however, that individual users are virtually never the target of a focused hacking effort. Most people getting "Hacked" are nothing more than unfortunate victims of random IP scans, trojans, or botnets.

    Hackers have bigger fish to fry.
  • Craig18Craig18 New
    edited July 2007
    I hope that it's nothing and I'm just being paranoid.

    Hopefully, everything will be OK.

    Thanks for your help.
  • IndigoRedIndigoRed Perth Western Australia Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    How many is numerous? Frequency?
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited July 2007
    Craig,

    Just let me second this comment:
    Thrax wrote:
    ...individual users are virtually never the target of a focused hacking effort. Most people getting "Hacked" are nothing more than unfortunate victims of random IP scans, trojans, or botnets.

    Unless you're last name is Gates or Buffett, a good hacker is focused elsewhere. Lots of software companies are selling fear. You have a firewall, and if you have anti-virus and download the windows updates, (and no kids clicking on "free offer" links), you are pretty protected against the random stuff.
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