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What does this mean?
#11
RE: What does this mean?
What always baffles me is why people feel the need to go to the lengths of virtually hurting others with viruses, etc.
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#12
RE: What does this mean?
Money.
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#13
RE: What does this mean?
Back in the day people did it for simple asshattery
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#14
RE: What does this mean?
(July 16, 2016 at 12:41 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: So I'm doing a little research and this, apparently, is a VERY common problem with netgear routers.

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Wired-R...857/page/2

Some of the people are saying it is dropped traffic (nothing to worry about), some are saying that it is causing them to go over their data limits. No telling if these people have correctly identified this as the source of the issue.

Have you noticed a drop in speed when this started? Have you noticed a bump in your data usage?

Try running MalwareBytes and a Virus Scan, to be safe.

Actually, yes I have noticed a huge drop in my speed. I haven't thought to check my data usage. I will look into that.
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#15
RE: What does this mean?
Judi, no-one is saying that this is related to wifi.

Is that ip the ip of your router itself?
Jump on the net and type whastismyip.

That is the ip of your router, not wifi.
Everybody's router is live to the world.
People do it to see what ports you have open for a variety of reasons, none of them good.
I can view my home sec cameras on my phone from the net.
That another port open which people may try to access.
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#16
RE: What does this mean?
(July 16, 2016 at 12:45 am)Maelstrom Wrote: What always baffles me is why people feel the need to go to the lengths of virtually hurting others with viruses, etc.

Money and lulz, mostly.
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#17
RE: What does this mean?
(July 16, 2016 at 12:47 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Back in the day people did it for simple asshattery

I actually made a virus before anyone even knew the word.  The Radio Shack Color Computer 2 and 3 allowed a programmer to specify the memory range that a program would load into.  The super fun thing was that the OS was copied from ROM to RAM on boot, so you could overwrite the OS.

Much fun was had wiping all my buddy's pirated game CDs.  Big Grin

That was me.  13  year-old asshat.
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#18
RE: What does this mean?
(July 16, 2016 at 12:33 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Somebody is poking at your HTTP and HTTPS ports - which are almost certainly not open - apparently from upstream from you.

This sort of probe is common as dirt.

I wouldn't expect your ISP is going to care.  If there's any firmware updates to your router, apply them.  It wouldn't hurt to review your router config.

I'm jealous. I want some common dirt probing.
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#19
RE: What does this mean?
(July 16, 2016 at 3:03 am)ignoramus Wrote: Judi, no-one is saying that this is related to wifi.

Is that ip the ip of your router itself?
Jump on the net and type whastismyip.

That is the ip of your router, not wifi.
Everybody's router is live to the world.
People do it to see what ports you have open for a variety of reasons, none of them good.
I can view my home sec cameras on my phone from the net.
That another port open which people may try to access.

I found it... What now?
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#20
RE: What does this mean?
So I just looked up the IP of the last "attack" in the log. It's coming from somewhere in AZ.

The original one in my OP has two different places: Arkansas and Massachusetts.

WTF?
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