why are there so many trojan horse attacks on my PC

[Kurnal]

I have had NIS 2002 for a couple of years and have noticed occasional trojan
horse alerts from time to time, with various different trojan horse types
being reported. But over the last couple of weeks, in the evenings I am
being bombarded with attacks all of which are involving the "sokets de trois
v1" . The number of attacks varies from several per hour up to 375 per hour
at times. There seem to be several IP addresses at the source of the
attacks. Please can anyone tell me why these attacks have increased so much
and why it is always the very old sokets de trois rather than a variety of
trojans that I used to see? I never see any attacks when I am on line
between 6 and 8 am local time, just in the evening.

 

[me]

I have had NIS 2002 for a couple of years and have noticed occasional trojan
horse alerts from time to time, with various different trojan horse types
being reported. But over the last couple of weeks, in the evenings I am
being bombarded with attacks all of which are involving the "sokets de trois
v1" . The number of attacks varies from several per hour up to 375 per hour
at times. There seem to be several IP addresses at the source of the
attacks. Please can anyone tell me why these attacks have increased so much
and why it is always the very old sokets de trois rather than a variety of
trojans that I used to see? I never see any attacks when I am on line
between 6 and 8 am local time, just in the evening.

Latest "fad" -- get used to it.

BTW, turning off those "attack" alerts is advisable.

J

 

[Boyd Williston]

I have had NIS 2002 for a couple of years and have noticed occasional
trojan horse alerts from time to time, with various different trojan
horse types being reported. But over the last couple of weeks, in the
evenings I am being bombarded with attacks all of which are involving
the "sokets de trois v1" . The number of attacks varies from several
per hour up to 375 per hour at times. There seem to be several IP
addresses at the source of the attacks. Please can anyone tell me why
these attacks have increased so much and why it is always the very old
sokets de trois rather than a variety of trojans that I used to see? I
never see any attacks when I am on line between 6 and 8 am local time,
just in the evening.

First, these are probably not 'Trojan horse attacks'. They are port scans
looking for computers that are already compromised by a Trojan. Harmless,
unless your computer is compromised or you get so many that it interferes
with your Internet connection.

Why have they increased? Someone is scanning more. In your case, sounds
like several somones. Why in the evening? That is when the hackers (teens
and twentys, mostly) are online. What to do about them? You might look up
the ISP for each IP and complain. But I'd just set my firewall to not
notify me about port scans and ignore them.