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Suspicious Connection attack warning on device from the IP address that is that device
Hi. We have a home network with Netgear Orbi wifi routers, protected by Netgear Armor. Recently we've been getting lots of "Attack Found on "computername"" messages. In the details it says "Suspicous...
Looking deeper, I think I have more info but it’s no clearer to me. First a few days ago I got this message:
There was an attempt to establish a connection to your device from the IP 172.64.151.101.
The IP has been associated with malicious activity in the past, thus the connection to your device was blocked.
Now yesterday and today I’m getting the inverse message:
The device attempted to establish a connection to an untrusted IP.
The IP has been associated with malicious activity in the past, thus the connection towards it was blocked.
Device name
COMPUTERNAME
External IP
172.64.151.101
Does this mean it was ultimately successful in connecting and now it’s trying to send info back, or something else?
There was an attempt to establish a connection to your device from the IP 172.64.151.101.
The IP has been associated with malicious activity in the past, thus the connection to your device was blocked.
Now yesterday and today I’m getting the inverse message:
The device attempted to establish a connection to an untrusted IP.
The IP has been associated with malicious activity in the past, thus the connection towards it was blocked.
Device name
COMPUTERNAME
External IP
172.64.151.101
Does this mean it was ultimately successful in connecting and now it’s trying to send info back, or something else?