Same threat keeps hitting me!!!

arkonite_babe

Can someone offer advice for Norton please??The same threat keeps hitting my PC repeatedly and I have no idea how to stop it or reduce the hits. Details are as shown in pic.

Troubleatmill_2

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/attack_sigs/s20421.html


cheers
Troubleatmill

arkonite_babe

yes, I have read that and as I understand, I'm not to use active x basically, that right??

Anything else I can do to minimise threats??

albertross_2

Make sure your PC is patched at https://www.windowsupdate.com (and control panel, security center, automatic updates set to on. if on broadband, consider buying a router, use anti-spyware scanners

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

etc..

Browntoa

there is a patch for this due next Tuesday as part of Microsofts normal security updates but this may be brought forward if they decide that the risk is growing (there are very few sites exploiting this new weakness)

Troubleatmill_2

Did a google search on your message - a large no of forums discussing the same issue.
"ms asn1 integer overflow tcp"

General view is to tick the box "don't show an alert for this again" and let the firewall do it's job.

Cheers
Troubleatmill