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My niece from the Seattle Washington State area was over here in western New York Sate yesterday and said her phones' McAfee anti-virus is stating that my network was under attack. I checked today as sure enough it was under attack. MS Defender did not pick this up. Fortunately all DoS attacks were stopped at the router. So I advise all of my forum friends to check their routers to make sure that your firmware is up to date and to verify that if you are under attack that all attacks are stopped.
From what I have read DoS attacks are very common and virtually impossible to block. A DoS attack does try to steal anything but it does flood your network and slows everything down to a crawl. But if one did get through whom knows what else can get through. Yea I am that paranoid with it comes to hackers.
I just thought that I would pass this on as Defender didn't pick up these attacks.
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Thanks. Routers are a good target for attacks because people don't change the default names and passwords.
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Good point, and the default names and passwords are generally used consistently across all manufacturers and models. Big no-no to leave the defaults.
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Yes, very good point. I think because I changed the default passwords the hackers did not get through. I think that it is very sad that MS Defender did not let me know I was under attack while it's anti-virus competition did! Maybe it is time to change anti-virus programs?
Has anyone's anti-virus program warned you that you were under attack? I'm curious because if I change I would go to one that did warn me, even it was daily.
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+1 on the never keep the default passwords. No, I've never had a DoS attack (thankfully) Defender gets very low scores in the protection category on Win10 computers https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/according to AVTest, the site my computer pro recommends. It shares the basement with Comodo in that category. Notes
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From what I've read over the decades, all computers are pretty much always under attack. The very first thing I do when building a new computer is install or activate the anti-malware. Almost as soon as it is connected, it takes unknown traffic from the Internet.
But these unsecured routers are just a free gift to hackers.
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Malware Anti-Exploit has been an additional safety for me. Several times it warned me of Crap when using my Firefox browser. Again looking at music goodies. It is free, or for $25 per year bit better. Take care    
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I recently got back from a tax seminar in Vegas and this year a good 45 minutes was spent on computer security, it used to be maybe 5 minutes just talking about passwords. This time they talked about passwords alright but said even what used to be considered good ones are not good enough. 30-60 characters is good enough. All kinds of sensitive networks require us to change passwords every 60 to 90 days now. They said forget trying to get all weird with random numbers or names. Use fairly large phrases about literally anything like Iwillpersonallykillallhackers. Then in 60 days change it to Mypitbullisgoingtokillallhackers, then mymotherisreallygoingtokillallhackers. I guess I don't like hackers...Add some numbers and special characters to it. One of the presenters has 70 passwords using a password manager. Here's one article about them: Best free password managers We were told that the most popular passwords right now are still password, 12345678 and admin. Gee how clever. All this talk about the Russians hacking us? Podesta's (Clintons' campaign manager) password for his emails was...wait for it...password. What was really disturbing was the seminar included a half hour talk by an IRS CID guy. Those are like federal marshals with a badge, a gun and everything else. He talked about the Dark Web, about how you can't access it with our usual browsers, you have to be clever enough to find the special hackers browser for that. He then showed some screen grabs of actual postings. It was basically white letters on a back background. None of this colorful advertising and pretty websites we're used to seeing. The first slide was a guy selling one name with an address, birthday and SSN for $4. Then he had a post with 10,000 names with all that info for $500. Then he asked how many had tax firms with over 1,000 clients and a bunch of hands went up. He shows a posting where someone is selling a CPA firms entire cloned hard drive with over 2,800 clients on it plus the firms own internal accounting info. This isn't just names and SSN's this is tax returns, employer stuff, everything. This gem was going for $4,000. How was this acquired? By hacking into the remote service they were using for some staff members to work at home. It took some months to clone the whole hard drive using that method. Luckily the feds were monitoring the whole thing and busted them when the time was right. I'm telling you, this was a very sobering talk especially if you have any kind of business using the internet. Bob
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Malware Anti-Exploit has been an additional safety for me. Several times it warned me of Crap when using my Firefox browser. Again looking at music goodies. It is free, or for $25 per year bit better. Take care Frank thanx for that info. I didn't realize that the pro version of Anti-Malwarebytes had an upgrade available. The upgrade contains Malware Anti-Exploit.
The fitness trainer asked me, "What kind of a squat are you accustomed to doing?" I said, "Diddly."
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Mario,
Not to mislead in my posting.
I did purchase Malware bytes Pro
The one I posted is a separate piece of software to
precisely monitor your Browser incoming information.
It may slow things a bit, but I'm happy with results.
Good luck.
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Mario,
Not to mislead in my posting.
I did purchase Malware bytes Pro
The one I posted is a separate piece of software to
precisely monitor your Browser incoming information.
It may slow things a bit, but I'm happy with results.
Good luck. You did not mislead me. According to their site https://www.malwarebytes.com/antiexploit/antiexploit is now a part of Anti-Malwarebytes 3 Pro. It doesn't appear to be a separate program anymore. All I did was to DL 3 Pro, install it over my 2.5 version and it took my serial number, thus I am up to date.
The fitness trainer asked me, "What kind of a squat are you accustomed to doing?" I said, "Diddly."
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Mario,
That's been a change for I purchased both of them separately.
Duh on my part I guess.
Methinks not, I got it early in its availablity.
Good luck!
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My day job is supporting this internet you speak of.
If you new the number of hacking attempts an average public web server incurs daily it would make you real nervous.
It's the mysterious ones that scare me.
Fer instance I know an exploit was found a couple months ago in Windows Servers, but the exploit was initially ran as a 'probe'. It simply inserted a hidden piece of code on websites that affected nothing on the site .. not visibly, not performance wise. Nothing. It was just there.
I also know 96,000 other websites (last I checked) could be found by searching for this snippet of code on Google .. so safe to say they had 'marked' 100,000 websites as 'I can get in here (been hacked)'.
Many were institutions and other 'gov type' websites.
As time goes by I expect that number to dwindle, since I figger if WE saw it, other alert web guys will also.
I believe we've alleviated the issue (no sign of it since implementing the fix) but you don't really know for sure until something happens to the other sites (the payload is triggered).
Yeah, that's the type of stuff that goes on, and I deal with.
In between I get to program software, which is much more fun. Build the protection in before it ever goes public in the first place. Compiling for the win!
/it's most often some plugin or add-on that gets compromised .. gotta be careful.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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