Is my computer being hacked?

Craig18Craig18 New
edited July 2007 in Nerdery
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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