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Grogie1977
Mar 08, 2021Tutor
DoS Attacks and False Flags
There are a lot of discussions of DoS attacks and what they mean and where they come. Comments from "why would someone want to attack a lonely computer and not business?" to ISP's not have good secu...
microchip8
Mar 11, 2021Master
NETGEAR is famously known for many false positives. Blocking/filtering these false positives is expensive and puts a lot of strain on the limited resources of the router. Try to turn off DoS protection and see if it fixes your issues
Grogie1977
Mar 11, 2021Tutor
This is what I ended up finding out these router DoS router attacks and rst scans. Sorry for some you computer geeks (lol) who have computer knowledge, I wrote this informative paragraph for another group. Though this will stay informative to wide range of users left in this form. Here is something that know news or tech company will tell you. A large tech company, Akemai, is involved with Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, AVG and others for download managers. In other words, Intel Update Manager and various update apps to tell you when updates are available. Theses apps are constantly sending out messages to Akemai asking if there are updates and the way Akemai sends the response back is blocked by the routers firewall. This is known as DoS (denial of service). If you log into your router and look at your logs under admin you should see DoS rst scans with an ip address. If you search that ip address that address should come up as Akemai owned. Also if you open up your task manager, go to performance then network you will see constant out going traffic when you are not on the internet. How to fix this? Open your ports on the router firewall which is a security risk and not recommended. Companies resolving the issue, which won't happen time soon. So, for adobe you have to go to the search are and type services and open it up, find Adobe update and disable it. Any other update app you will have to disable or uninstall, this is bloatware. You can check weekly or monthly yourself. There is also programs like Drive Booster that will monitor all your apps and not hinder performance. It is only one program and not many. The more computers on a network, the more rst scans DoS you will have on your router. I don't believe turning off DoS scans is ever a wise answer. This is the same as opening up ports and opening you up to security attacks. Either take the risk in some peoples advice of this or just get rid of these download managers.