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Worrying entries in my broadband log

  • 29-07-2012 4:36am
    #1
    En
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭


    Own a Zyxel P660HW-T1 Eircom router, went into router settings and had a peek at my recent logs.

    MCNT

    The "ATTACK" note had me worried so I traced the IPs back to some American living in Nevada and a Pakistani fellow living in Islamabad.

    Should I be worried that my connection may be compromised?


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  • #2
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    It's just random noise from the internet, there are crawlers on infected computers that keep scanning and trying to login on random IP addresses. The firewall on the router will keep them out. Be sure to change the default admin password.


  • #3
    Snowbat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    But the "ATTACK" traffic flagged there is not from the internet. Source addresses are local (192.168.1.2 and .6) with Destination a cable modem on Cox in USA and a DSL modem on PTCL in Pakistan. Could be P2P... or malicious.


  • #4
    En
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭En


    Snowbat wrote: »
    But the "ATTACK" traffic flagged there is not from the internet. Source addresses are local (192.168.1.2 and .6) with Destination a cable modem on Cox in USA and a DSL modem on PTCL in Pakistan. Could be P2P... or malicious.

    Yeah I know for a fact that torrents are very popular with my roomies... The local IPs match with the people that use them. Thanks!


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