Re: Port scan attack

Well since I have not seen you get a reply this is the best I can offer. I
do not use a router, on a very slow dial-up, and am running 2010. I get port
scanned allot(I know on dial-up? ;>}) and what I do is right click the
network icon in the lower right. I then select the interactive firewall, I
then select the offending IP in the window and click the "blacklist" button.
If there are more than one, quite often, I select each intern and blacklist
them.
Good luck;

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Len Lawrence <lcl-s9phx+4gxdMG2Il/[email protected]>wrote:

> Mandriva 2008.1, cable modem, 4 port Belkin wired router.
>
> In the past couple of days my internet connection has slowed down, possibly
> by a factor of ten, and yesterday and this morning the system has been
> subject to a port scanning attack.  The system displayed a message
> indicating that it was mounted by my router and showed a button "Process
> attack".  That disappeared before I could react, replaced by a flashing
> warning triangle in the panel so I wondered if there was any way to
> reactivate the Process Attack option.  Does anybody know what it does?
>  Reverse DNS lookup maybe and an opportunity to blacklist the source
> somehow?
>
> The attack has stopped but it would be handy to know what to do if it were
> repeated.
>
> Len
>
>
>
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