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ATTACKED IP from Google on TP
Harvey I noticed a huge spike in site hits that I was investigating yesterday, hopefully just seasonal increase in volume. Can you send me a PM on this and info on the SW you are using, I need to track this down.
Update 3/20/2005:
I checked my log files and I do not see any iregularities.
Dennis
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I have an request into google on this, and I am waiting for a reply.
Here is my theroy on this, which is just conjecture at this point. The Google ads I have are what are called context sensitive ads. I think that these are not attacks on your desktops at all, rather what Google does in their script is try to review the TP page content before serving the context sensitive ads. Unfortunately all of the pages on Tractorpoint are dynamic content, there are almost no static content pages on the site. Therefore Google has to scan the pages each time. Now if you have some extremely sensitive SW on your PC you may be picking this up.
On my machine I have Norton with the latest virus files. And I do not see anything when I browse the site.
I will get back to you when I hear from Google, also to be able to analyze this more I will need some more info about any free SW you are using so that I can attempt to replicate the problem myself.
Dennis
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Tractorpoint Operator Note:
Please DO NOT go out and install Symantec Internet Security 2005. Based on this report I made the fatal misstake of installing it on one of my backup machines that was working GREAT before the install. I am very &*%^*^(*^&&*^&* off at this point for doing what I intrinsically believed to be a misstake.
I was just trying to replicate Harvey's issue now I have problems. I noticed during the install of the &^*&^*&^ SW that it was going in too many areas for my liking.
Now I am paying the price losing alot of valuable data and time for *&*(&(*&*( darn it! Looks like I wil be foreced to rebuild the machine. BEWARE!!!!!!!
Dennis
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The fix as far as I can see is to disable the Symantec product. I can tell you now that I had to resinstall my operating system because of it (Norton Internet Security 2005) I will not be looking into this any further from that regard (ie installing that product anywhere).
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From my perspective this is a false alert. If someone disagrees exactly what if anything is happening to your PC from the supposed attack?
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Ok guys here is the response from my contact at Google:
"Thank you for your patience while we investigated this issue. Please rest assured that Google is not attempting to attack any of your customers computers in any way. In fact, Google has strong principles that advocate against any type of software that behaves like this; for more information, please visit: http://www.google.com/corporate/software_principles.html
While researching your question, I noticed that the Google server mentioned in the alert is pagead2.googlesyndication.com . This sever is used by our AdSense program to display relevant advertisements on partner websites. Please note, however, that in this instance "pagead2.googlesyndication.com" is being shown under the "Attacked IP" and not as the attacker.
You may also wish to refer to Symantec's help site at:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/nis_ids/sigs/http_activeperl_overflow.html
in order to determine if this alert is a false positive.
Please also understand that specifically, Norton Personal Firewall 2004 and Norton Internet Security 2004 both contain an 'ad blocker' feature. This feature is enabled by default, and will need to be disabled in order to properly view Google ads. If your users have this feature enabled within their security products, they may be having difficulty viewing the Google ads on your pages. Please contact Norton directly for further information or assistance regarding this feature.
Please feel free to reply to this email if you have additional questions
or concerns."
I hate to say it, but as my own computer was completely wiped trying to be the nice guy analyzing this, I think I can say this is one of those RTFMA cases no disrespect intended. As so often happens when overdoing anything, it can lead to less than optimum results.
In regards to Norton, I use their anitivirus and I have no problems with it. This internet security package crashed my machine causing me to have to reinstall the operating system and all my SW so I am not so happy with it, your experience may be different. At least I was smart enough to recognize that this could be dangerous, and used my older machine to install. Wow was I lucky!!!!!!!!
Best Regards to all,
Dennis
TractorPoint.com Operator
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