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Has anybody else suffered repeated suspected Trojan attacks?

The thing is, recently, whenever I have been logged in here for half an hour or longer, I get suspected attack reports from my firewall. So far in the last few days I have had around ten apparent connection attempts from Backdoor/SubSeven, NetBus and TransScout Trojans. This problem has only really come about in the last week, and I have not tinkered with my firewall settings for a month, so I don't see why this should suddenly be happening. I know that it is often the case that perfectly normal activity can be misinterpreted by firewalls, but from one alarm a month to one or two every day is a bit of a fluke, isn't it?

I am not posting this in Technical because hardly anyone ever goes there and I can't expect anyone to do anything about it, I just want to see if anyone here has experienced anything similar, like Trojan alerts, portscans, etc.

Despite your feelings toward technical, that is really where this post belongs. There are people there that can give you a good answer to your question.

-KtM

Like i said, look up a program called "the cleaner"

I have those attacks everywhere. I think it's not site related. It is almost impossible to add a trojan to this site. I think you watched to many XXX sites :P

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Corinthe, Queen of Eternity.

Get Ad Aware and scan your puter for spy ware, and i hope your puter is clean from Virus :)

Eh? You posted this twice...?

And like i said, run a virus scan...

I had a Trojan attack once, but it is hardly appropriate to talk about condoms on this site.

Many sites will try to retrive user data from you and some firewalls see this as an attack.

Thanks for the replies, guys.

No way do I actually have a malicious program on my computer - it is clean - I maintain excellent security and nothing of that sort would last long. I agree that what I am seeing is probably data requests, but I don't understand why it has only started now. I guess it will remain a mystery. Annoying though, getting pop-ups and having to update my IP block list every time.