Need Help: FR has become Norton Security Threat

7-1-04 | cgk

[cgk]

Last night Norton had an intrusion attempt while I was accessing FR, and when I blocked the attempt, my connection to FR was "refused." I had to restart my computer because the rest of the web "worked", just not FR.

This morning, while accessing FR (browsing, and then again clicking my FR pager, the pop-up window), another intrusion attempt, this time I recorded the details which you can see a portion of above (it wouldn't let me copy the whole Norton screen).

It said FR was the source. This has never happened before and I've been using Norton for awhile, and the FR pager forever. Any ideas on how to work around this, or determine what the problem is? Thank you!

[cgk]

ping... thanks!

[Alia]

Past two days; I received similar when going to "list older threads". "Page not displayed". Three times. Suggests it's a live "assault" as opposed to a bot-routine.

[cgk]

It seems to have only happened to me when using the FR pager... how did you get around it? Just accept the attempt?

[martin_fierro]

Hmmmmm. Ping.

[cgk]

BTW - I am on FR again now because I rebooted my pc. I could not access FR otherwise. And I've skipped using the "pager" until I know what to do. :)

[onyx]

I have Norton, but I never use pager,
and have not had any problem with FR
via Norton.

[Fiddlstix]

Thanks for the post. I use norton too but have never encountered any problem like this.

[HAL9000]

The IP seems to match FR's, but it seems unlikely that MSSQL was involved.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Says low risk. I don't have an answer, but we have been working over here:

PestPatrol Shares Spyware Lessons ( Company will offer database of known... free.)

This is a resource thread, not an answer thread. It gives an idea of the magnitude and variety of the threats!!!

[cgk]

That's the strange thing. I've had Norton Internet Security for a short while now and this is the first time it's ever happened. Twice in 12 hours or so.

[cgk]

I don't even know what MSSQL is ;)

[BigSkyFreeper]

I'm guessing Norton "thinks" it's an actual intruder. It shows up as a "Low" threat.

I'm just guessing. I use Sygate Personal Firewall and for antivirus I use AVG since it's been documented a number of times in PC Magazine that Nortons antivirus and firewall software products produce "false positives" on numerous occasions.

[Lunatic Fringe]

It is a null packet related to SQL, probably a harmless frame used in database queries. Accept it and choose not to notify in the future.

[BigSkyFreeper]

MSSQL is Microsoft's SQL server.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Not from Microsoft themselves, but MSSQL is the Microsoft based SQL (database) server.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I don't even know what MSSQL is ;)

I think that is the SQL (Relational Database )

[Bikers4Bush]

Did the page you were viewing have pictures?

[cgk]

Thank you for the clarification. I've heard that about norton also... ran a Housecall scan the other day in fact because Norton came up empty but I have a file I can't delete and read it could be a worm or some sort. Housecall came up empty also, so I assumed it was wrong, but I still have this 0 byte folder I can't get rid of. Even downloaded MoveOnBoot, no fix.

[cinFLA]

A couple of months ago I kept getting strange pop-ups while on FR. I think there was a discussion on it also. No problem lately but at the time it did not affect all.