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ZoneAlarm Security Alert (So many of them)

  • 06-03-2006 4:53pm
    #1
    jozi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,391 ✭✭✭


    Keep getting the following ZA alert, got 7 within the space of less than a minute earlier.
    zaalert2et.jpg
    The info button refers to here
    I'm on the wireless netwok in college here, i assume its just someone trying to rob stuff of my laptop. It's really anoying tbh.

    Is it as Za site says legitemate network traffic or worse a virus of some description trying to get on my pc.

    If i try browse the network i dont get any computers/laptops shown. Are there aps that will let me search for wireless enabled laptops?

    Jozi


Comments

  • #2
    axer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    Firewall administrators will frequently see large numbers of incoming packets to port 137. This is due to the behavior of Windows servers that use NetBIOS (as well as DNS) to resolve IP addresses to names using the "gethostbyaddr()" function. As users behind the firewalls surf Windows-based web sites, those servers will frequently respond with NetBIOS lookups.

    taken from here


  • #3
    Judt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Judt


    Plenty of alarms you'll get from firewalls are "Routine". Just set down your threshold and only have it alert you when 1. It needs you to make a decision (block, unblock something etc) or 2. It has automatically blocked a serious infraction.


  • #4
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    jozi wrote:
    i assume its just someone trying to rob stuff of my laptop
    Oh that's just being paranoid. :rolleyes:

    Incidentally, you've got some jam on your chin.

    I've had 42221 access attempts according to ZA since last install, and I don't care, becasue they're meaningless to me, as long as I update my anti-virus, I'll be grand.
    And if not, I have my handy dandy ghost image of my HD to fall back on.


  • #5
    bpmurray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    BopNiblets wrote:
    ... as long as I update my anti-virus, I'll be grand.

    Actually, they're two quite different things. The firewall's purpose is to prevent access to the machine, but the anti-virus os to prevent damage by something that's on your machine.


  • #6
    jozi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,391 ✭✭✭jozi


    Turned of alerts i think.

    I imagine its harmless alright but it was seriously anoying yesterday getting that popup every otherminute or more often.


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  • #7
    riptide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭riptide


    BopNiblets wrote:
    Oh that's just being paranoid. :rolleyes:

    Incidentally, you've got some jam on your chin.

    I've had 42221 access attempts according to ZA since last install, and I don't care, becasue they're meaningless to me, as long as I update my anti-virus, I'll be grand.
    And if not, I have my handy dandy ghost image of my HD to fall back on.
    Actually wouldn't agree. Rerad an article in one of the papers a while ago about a little 2 week project a few people done in Ireland with an unprotected pc. They connected the pc 24/7 up to broadband and just left it... no browsing was done on it. The pc was not advertised in any way on the net yet they recorded a few hundred attempts/accesses on it per day from the net. Actually made scary reading!


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