Possible Plusnet attack effecting my Internet connection?
Hi,
Please could you start by reading this message I had from Plusnet sent to my Member Centre homepage:-
In order to us to maintain a high level of service, and protect our network against potential attacks, we need to make a change which affects your account.
This change is related to the broadband firewall which all of our customer accounts have access to.
We'll be making a change to block incoming traffic on ports 53, 111, 135, 137, 138, 139, 445, 515, 1080, 1433, 3128, 3306, 6000.
In most cases these ports will already be blocked by your local firewall however in the event of a compromised router, the ports may be unblocked or used in a potential attack.
It is unlikely you will need these inbound ports open, if you do you please visit http://contactus.plus.net and let us know by responding to this support ticket.
There's nothing you need to do, and your connection should continue to work as normal apart from a brief disconnection whilst we make these changes. In the vast majority of cases your router will automatically reconnect. If you experience problems getting reconnected following this maintenance please try a single reboot of your router.
Kind Regards,
Chris Parr
Customer Support
This message was posted to me on the 06/03/2014. Ever since then Ive had nothing but problems with my internet connection and can only put it down to some form of attack on the Plusnet servers?.
It all began when I simply logged into Windows and fired up my Firefox browser. My homepage is and always has been Google but for some VERY bizarre reason now I don`t get Google?
Instead I get this:-
And every time I click OK I then get this :-
If I downloaded the Flash setup file to my PC and began installation, my AVG would automatically detect the file as a trojan.
On further investigation I can see the URL clearly states "http://www.google.co.uk/". The Firefox website identity also reports no ownership information of this webpage.
To start with I thought it was some form of phishing attack/virus/trojan in my PC. I did several scans using AVG, Malwarebytes..etc but they all came back clean.
This is were things got very strange!. My wife went to Google on her Iphone and received the exact same message!???? So I turned on my tablet and went to Google on that. Guess what.... exact same message
No matter what device I have in my household, none of them can get on to Google without this stupid "Update your Flash Player" message! it`s so frustrating.
I even went as far as formatting my PC and still have this message about Flash Player when going to Google homepage.
Also for some odd reason I can occasionally get onto Google fine and everything is as should be. Then later in the day the same problem again.
Also my wife tells me she can only get on Facebook half the time due to this problem.
I tried to reboot/reset my router also making sure to change passwords for my administration panel and WPS2 connection in case of a possible attacks on my router.
As already mentioned this problem comes and goes. Why?. And how can it effect ALL hardware devices in my home.... PC, Laptop, iphone, tablet!!!???
Could this problem be related to the message Plusnet had sent me about firewall ports?.
I have been using Yahoo search to look up this problem on various websites but to no avail.
I really do hope somebody can help me with this problem. I am running out of ideas. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks
Please could you start by reading this message I had from Plusnet sent to my Member Centre homepage:-
In order to us to maintain a high level of service, and protect our network against potential attacks, we need to make a change which affects your account.
This change is related to the broadband firewall which all of our customer accounts have access to.
We'll be making a change to block incoming traffic on ports 53, 111, 135, 137, 138, 139, 445, 515, 1080, 1433, 3128, 3306, 6000.
In most cases these ports will already be blocked by your local firewall however in the event of a compromised router, the ports may be unblocked or used in a potential attack.
It is unlikely you will need these inbound ports open, if you do you please visit http://contactus.plus.net and let us know by responding to this support ticket.
There's nothing you need to do, and your connection should continue to work as normal apart from a brief disconnection whilst we make these changes. In the vast majority of cases your router will automatically reconnect. If you experience problems getting reconnected following this maintenance please try a single reboot of your router.
Kind Regards,
Chris Parr
Customer Support
This message was posted to me on the 06/03/2014. Ever since then Ive had nothing but problems with my internet connection and can only put it down to some form of attack on the Plusnet servers?.
It all began when I simply logged into Windows and fired up my Firefox browser. My homepage is and always has been Google but for some VERY bizarre reason now I don`t get Google?
Instead I get this:-
And every time I click OK I then get this :-
If I downloaded the Flash setup file to my PC and began installation, my AVG would automatically detect the file as a trojan.
On further investigation I can see the URL clearly states "http://www.google.co.uk/". The Firefox website identity also reports no ownership information of this webpage.
To start with I thought it was some form of phishing attack/virus/trojan in my PC. I did several scans using AVG, Malwarebytes..etc but they all came back clean.
This is were things got very strange!. My wife went to Google on her Iphone and received the exact same message!???? So I turned on my tablet and went to Google on that. Guess what.... exact same message
No matter what device I have in my household, none of them can get on to Google without this stupid "Update your Flash Player" message! it`s so frustrating.
I even went as far as formatting my PC and still have this message about Flash Player when going to Google homepage.
Also for some odd reason I can occasionally get onto Google fine and everything is as should be. Then later in the day the same problem again.
Also my wife tells me she can only get on Facebook half the time due to this problem.
I tried to reboot/reset my router also making sure to change passwords for my administration panel and WPS2 connection in case of a possible attacks on my router.
As already mentioned this problem comes and goes. Why?. And how can it effect ALL hardware devices in my home.... PC, Laptop, iphone, tablet!!!???
Could this problem be related to the message Plusnet had sent me about firewall ports?.
I have been using Yahoo search to look up this problem on various websites but to no avail.
I really do hope somebody can help me with this problem. I am running out of ideas. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks
Thanks for your comments guys. My DNS Servers are set to :-
50.63.128.135
8.8.8.8
Is that right?
50.63.128.135
8.8.8.8
Is that right?
Ok, I will look my DNS settings and see what I can do. Thanks for all your help guys! 