momcat1
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Wappingers Falls, NY
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1 edit | [help] Twinge Attack (it was capital..) Detect - what is it and
Tonight when I got home from work, I found something new in my router log "TWINGE ATTACK Detect". I've never seen this before, so I don't know what it is. I can state that no one was home when this was logged, and none of our computers was on, either. Have any of you run into this, and can you explain what it is? What I've read from searching the term does not seem to apply.
And yes, I do have block WAN ping enabled |
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GeekNJ
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join:2000-09-23
Waldwick, NJ | Re: [help] Twinge Attack (it was capital..) Detect - what is it
Are you running any torrent programs? Seems that's the most usual "false positive" for the alert. |
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momcat1
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join:2002-10-21
Wappingers Falls, NY
1 edit | reply to momcat1
Absolutely NOT! And besides, all of the computers were powered down. |
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caffeinator
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Did a little googlin' and found this that may help: »forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=427094
Quite a bit of information online about that attack type, it's basically a ICMP flooder dealio.
-CaFF
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momcat1
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Wappingers Falls, NY
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Caffeinator, thanks for your effort but I did state above that I do have block WAN ping enabled. It's been enabled since my prior router, so we're going back 3+ years that our IP has been unpingable. That would leave it as a random attack, since my IP has not been discoverable anywhere in over 3 years. |
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nonymous
join:2003-09-08
Glendale, AZ | reply to momcat1
Your IP is still there so someone can still attack it.
Do you have a static IP or dynamic. Maybe you just had a recent dynamic IP change and got the brunt of something for someone else.
Either way as you know you are safe. |
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