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Domenico Sartore false block SMB brute force attack
Hi. since two days AVG installed on our server block file access of two of the PC in our network.
reported SMB brute force attack. We tried to set Allow for these specific address in general settings, but with no effect. removing samba protection is effective, but maybe dangerous....
thnk you in advance
Domenico
reported SMB brute force attack. We tried to set Allow for these specific address in general settings, but with no effect. removing samba protection is effective, but maybe dangerous....
thnk you in advance
Domenico
Thank you for contacting AVG Support Community.
We're sorry to hear that you're facing this trouble.
We will certainly check and help you.
Please send us the complete screenshot of that SMB: BruteForce pop-up and also confirm whether the IP address mentioned in that pop-up is your other PC's IP address.
Please refer to the below article to create a screenshot.
http://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlname=Create-screenshot (http://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlname=Create-screenshot)
Also please check if AVG Internet Security is up to date. Please refer to the below article to update both the program version and virus definition in AVG Internet Security.
https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?urlname=Update-AVG-Antivirus
Thank you and keep us updated.
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Thank you for contacting AVG Support Community.
We're sorry to hear that you're facing this trouble.
We will certainly check and help you.
Please send us the complete screenshot of that SMB: BruteForce pop-up and also confirm whether the IP address mentioned in that pop-up is your other PC's IP address.
Please refer to the below article to create a screenshot.
http://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlname=Create-screenshot (http://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlname=Create-screenshot)
Also please check if AVG Internet Security is up to date. Please refer to the below article to update both the program version and virus definition in AVG Internet Security.
https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?urlname=Update-AVG-Antivirus
Thank you and keep us updated.
Yes, PC address correspond to one of ours...... but blocking again SAMBA seems not to give us a pop up... here you have a screenshot of connectionsy...
Thank you for sharing the screenshot, Domenico.
Please add the detected IP address to the "Trusted connections" list of AVG Remote Access Shield and check if the issue persists. Refer to this article for detailed instructions.
Keep us updated.