Weird ZoneAlarm alert

cassette · #1 05-01-2007, 01:11 AM

This alert has been showing up 1-2 times every day for the last week. Is it anything to be concerned about? Is someone trying to hack me? I have had ZoneAlarm for a couple years and never seen anything like it. The IP address of the computer trying to contact mine is always the same.

Thanks for any advice.

brasilstu · #2 05-01-2007, 04:19 AM

If this is your IP address I'd recommend taking this picture off or blurring out the IP address.

Chrisman886 · #3 05-01-2007, 04:28 AM

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If this is your IP address I'd recommend taking this picture off or blurring out the IP address.

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That is unnecessary as it is a local IP.

cassette · #4 05-01-2007, 05:48 AM

That is the IP of the computer trying to access mine.

Beavis68 · #5 05-01-2007, 12:06 PM

this happens often. I turn off alerts for of this type.

CORed · #6 05-01-2007, 01:32 PM

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That is the IP of the computer trying to access mine.

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That would indicate that somebody is trying to read shared files from you local network. If you are using wireless, it may just mean that somebody's leaching your internet service. I think Explorer automatically scans for shares on the local network, so it may not be somebody actively attempting to access your files. You should probably turn on encryption if your are using wireless.

LuckyTxGuy · #7 05-01-2007, 03:10 PM

Some good advise so far.

Turn off the "show alerts" option in ZA. It's doing it's job and a 99% of what is actually blocks is fairly harmless stuff if you are behind a router, which you obviously are, because of your local network IP.

Do you have any other computers connected to the router? As other's said it indicates another computer (or device such as a network printer, webcam etc) are attempting to access your computer. Again, we're not talking about a huge threat here. However, if your wireless network is unencrypted it could be someone else leeching your wifi as CORed said. Encrypting the network would solve that.

nuclear500 · #8 05-01-2007, 03:23 PM

Or rather, is an Internet unroutable IP. It is useless unless you know the NAT's Internet facing IP and then you have to be very good at MAC layer hacking etc blah blah.

cassette · #9 05-01-2007, 05:47 PM

Thanks for the advice.

I am not using wireless internet. I don't think it could be a web cam or anything because the only external hardware I have is an external hardrive that I had long before these alerts started showing up.

Sounds like I don't need to be too worried. I was just concerned when the same IP continued to try to access my computer every day now for 2 weeks.