Re: Firewall Question

From: Markus Kraus (mkr_at_gmxpro.de)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 05:23:17 -0800

On 4 Mar 2004 04:39:10 -0800, Rob wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have dialup Internet connection and a recently installed Norton
>Personal Firewall 2004 on my XP Home PC. Sometimes when I am on the
>net just browsing local web pages, my firewall kicks in and blocks
>seemingly unrelated intruder data packs from the four corners of the
>globe.

Hi,

this is just the regular "background noise" of the internet. I don't
think someone is specially after you. It's probably either
viruses/worms, and the infected PCs all over the world (without
knowledge from their users) is just randomly scanning IP address
ranges.

Either that, or the person that had the dynamically assigned IP before
you had a filesharing software running, and the clients just didn't
update this guy's new IP yet.

Best regards,
Markus