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Netgear Warning

Jul 30, 2005 7:02AM PDT

I am continually getting an email message from my own email address to me with the subject
NETGEAR *Security Alert* [53:c3:a3] and then in the body of the email
"UDP Packet - Source:" then what I think is an IP address and then "Destination:" with another IP address (I think)

I tried contacting Netgear to query this but without result.
Can anyone help please?
I have Windows XP, and a Netgear wireless router DG834G v2
I don't think any one else can log on to it, as I set up the access list and turned the access control on.

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Did you...
Jul 30, 2005 12:22PM PDT

Did you set the firewall in the Netgear to send an email when it receives what it regards as an attack? If so, it did exactly what you set it to.

The next question is whether this "attack" is anything to get bothered about. It is a fact of life on the internet today that all kind of unsolicited malicious traffic is running around just banging doors hoping that somebody left theirs open. I've set my router to ignore anything unsolicited and left it at that. I've looked at the logs a few times but soon realized there wasn't much I could do about stuff blowing in from China and Bulgaria. None of it gets through the router, so I have turned off the firewalls at the individual systems.

dw

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Netgear Warning
Jul 31, 2005 7:20PM PDT

I am not sure about this. I have lookeed at the router firewall rules and the following is what is set, but I have to say I am very uncertain as to what it all means.
Outbound Services.
Enable - Yes; Service name = Any; Action = allow always; LAN users = any; WAN users = any; LOG = never
Inbound Services
Enable = Yes; Service name = Any; Action = block always; LAN users = any; WAN users = any; LOG = never

Do I need to change anything?

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Check in...
Aug 1, 2005 12:28AM PDT

I don't have that model (or even NetGear brand), but mine has a submenu in the configuration page for security settings and intrusion logging. Check your manual to determine how this works on yours. If they did not include a book in the box, you may have to read it on-screen from the .pdf file on the installation CD.

dw

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Netgear warning
Aug 1, 2005 3:45AM PDT

Thank you, will try!