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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!

1 posted on 07/01/2004 9:36:02 AM PDT by cgk
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To: Jim Robinson; John Robinson; Admin Moderator

ping... thanks!


2 posted on 07/01/2004 9:36:40 AM PDT by cgk (3000+ 9/11. Pearl, Fallujah, Berg, Jacobs, Scroggs, Johnson, Sun-il... Never forget. Never Again!)
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To: cgk

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.


3 posted on 07/01/2004 9:37:56 AM PDT by Alia (California -- It's Groovy! Baby!)
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To: *tech_index; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ShadowAce

Hmmmmm. Ping.


5 posted on 07/01/2004 9:42:41 AM PDT by martin_fierro
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To: 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. :)


6 posted on 07/01/2004 9:44:02 AM PDT by cgk (3000+ 9/11. Pearl, Fallujah, Berg, Jacobs, Scroggs, Johnson, Sun-il... Never forget. Never Again!)
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To: cgk

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


9 posted on 07/01/2004 9:50:55 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: cgk
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.

13 posted on 07/01/2004 9:54:01 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (John Kerry: An old creep, with gray hair, trying to look like he's 30 years old.)
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To: cgk

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.


14 posted on 07/01/2004 9:54:37 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
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To: cgk

Did the page you were viewing have pictures?


18 posted on 07/01/2004 9:58:07 AM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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To: cgk

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.


20 posted on 07/01/2004 9:59:24 AM PDT by cinFLA
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To: cgk

Change to Arial font because it is easier to read.


22 posted on 07/01/2004 10:00:30 AM PDT by bmwcyle (<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
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To: cgk

Norton Internet Security is known to be "highly strung" when it comes to issuing alerts. The usual advice is to set it to report only alerts of a critical nature, which should eliminate bogus alerts like the one you encountered here.


26 posted on 07/01/2004 10:04:37 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: cgk
The first step is to stop using IE. Get Mozilla.

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LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

28 posted on 07/01/2004 10:08:25 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: cgk

The Norton screenshot does not show a port number, but according to the tcpdump utility on Mac OS X, the FR pager is sending traffic to port 51524.


32 posted on 07/01/2004 10:10:43 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: cgk

Are you logged in?


41 posted on 07/02/2004 4:59:07 AM PDT by RWR8189 (Its Morning in America Again!)
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