Continious hacks- McAfee

Hi all, Am a newb to the group. I have been having some real problems
for a few months now with security issues. i have Win XP, was running
Sygate Pro and Kaspersky. Now I'm running mcAfee Security Suite w/ a D-
Link DI-604. I've been unable to get my router to show up in my
Network Connections setting to configure. All I get is the Intel NIC
card. Now my McAfee won't update and it seems to be showing intrusion
attempts from the 192.168.0.X, which is the same IP I'm supposed to
have. When I go to GRC.com's port scaner though, it reads my ISP's IP
that is assigned to me. Anyone have an idea on why the D Link isn't
showing up and what I'm doing wrong?

Re: Continious hacks- McAfee

rocco wrote:
> Hi all, Am a newb to the group. I have been having some real problems
> for a few months now with security issues. i have Win XP, was running
> Sygate Pro and Kaspersky. Now I'm running mcAfee Security Suite w/ a
> D-Link DI-604. I've been unable to get my router to show up in my
> Network Connections setting to configure.

Why on earth would you expect a router to show up there in the first
place? A router is a router, not a network interface of your computer.

> All I get is the Intel NIC card.

Big surprise. Not.

> Now my McAfee won't update and it seems to be showing intrusion
> attempts from the 192.168.0.X, which is the same IP I'm supposed to
> have.

That's most likely not attacks, but McAfee boasting how important it is.
What are these "intrusion attempts" supposed to be? What's the source
address of those packets? What's their destination address? Destination
port? Did you try to inspect the traffic with a sniffer?

Besides, it's pretty pointless to obfuscate private IP addresses.

> When I go to GRC.com's port scaner though, it reads my ISP's IP
> that is assigned to me.

That's not surprising either.

Besides: http//grcsucks.com/

> Anyone have an idea on why the D Link isn't showing up and what I'm
> doing wrong?

- You did not read the router's manual.
- You're running software that you don't understand.
- You did not provide any kind of useful information (like the actual
messages you get, or how your system and router is configured).

cu
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