I received notification from my security software on my laptop (not this desktop) that I had a recent attempt from 178.18.243.189 to attack my computer. It stated it was a known security risk.
*** from germany tried to hack from 178.18.243.189 probably using an automated software program. Dude get a life.
I live here in Germany and have some resources to track this ******* down. WHEN I identify and track him down I will make sure he can never operate a computer again.
Same here. I got a popup from mcafee saying that a risky connection was blocked and it was from the above ip address. The weird thing though is that it says ip addres: 178.18.243.189 program:avast! Service. So is it possible that it wasn't a hack attempt and that avast was just trying to connect and mcaffee blocked avast from connecting. Anyone else who had this happen have BOTH avast AND mcafee installed? Did everyone get this popup from mcafee? Perhaps that's the problem. Please respond guys. It may possibly be a false positve.....
I have had several attempts to attack my computer from this URL according to my Norton Anti-Virus. The most recent on 26 December 2011.
I had an infection alert from COMODO and upon observing the infected files in plain-text, I noticed one of the files referenced the IP in question. Screenshot is located here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G4CF1AS7 I have also contacted the abuse department of the ISP owning the ip address block.
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