You are absolutely right when you say I have a serious problem, unfortunately my ISP is of the lower grade and these viruses seem to be originating from someone on the same net segment as me as I get several warnings for dcom exploits from someone with a ip provided by the local proxy server.
This usually indicates speculative attacks (usually from someone whose system is infected) not that your OS isn't up to date, the attempt to exploit doesn't know the OS, much less if it is up to date. But it does indicate that the avast Network Shield seems to be catching it when this happens it is because your firewall isn't intercepting these exploit attempts.
What is your firewall ?
What Operating System are you using ? is it up to date ?
When I contacted them about it they gave me the token answer that I should get a firewall (already have one, but it slows my connection down to almost nothing) or buy the upgraded security package from them at quite an extra cost.
This is the price of protection, life is about compromise, and a good firewall is an absolute must, but it shouldn't get in the way so as to noticeably slow your connection, answering the what firewall do you use will help. I personally wouldn't take them up on the offer of the upgraded security package either as I feel their support is severely lacking already and there are many good firewalls out there at a reasonable price or even free.
The only other option is to switch isp and see if another company provides more security but with the physical net beloning to my current company the cost of having another ISP on that wiring is also quite enormous.
I will try the "silent mode" advice, though, as it seems to be what I was looking for.
Thanks again for all the advice.
//Kn Martin Tjernström
I would say switching ISP isn't an option, but take responsibility for your own protection, no ISP can provide workstation protection from a server based security option. You have to have the security programs installed on your system and I also wouldn't take any ISP security package as IMHO they don't select the best package for you, rather the best package for them.
As I said the silent mode option isn't recommended, that is only masking the possible symptoms, not treating the disease and we haven't even established which provider is alerting you. If they are all dcom style attacks then I suspect they are Network Shield alerts.
If you can provide us with a sample of the alerts (common groups), check out the avast! log viewer (right click the avast icon and select it) and look in the warning section. We want the virus name, file name and location, either HDD path or Web URL, etc.
