Re: Newbie with Norton Personal Firewall - Help Please

From: \ (dvader_at_deathstar.mil)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:55:03 -0400

>You were last attacked on: July 31,2004 8:27am
>Recent Intrusion attempts: 3
>Most frequent attacker: and gives the isp number.

>Last night I had checked and I was attacked like 20 times.

>What my question is is am I being "attacked" in the way that they are
>stealing info from me. And if so how do I enable my Norton Firewall
>to STOP THIS.

>I mean I have the damn thing on, I'm "blocking" popup windows saying
>someone is trying to get to my computer. What else do I need to do?

I will just repeat what others have said. You weren't "attacked." 3 hits or 20
hits is not an attack. It's background noise. THIS is an attack:
http://lists.gpick.com/crashsite/misc/attack.htm

What you are seeing is wrong numbers, lost packets, and random probes from
Trojans installed on infected machines. As long as they are being blocked, don't
sweat it, and ignore the misleading hyperbole from Symantec. Symantec is run by
salesman, not engineers.

I would enable logging and disable the alerts. You can study the logs at your
leisure and see what you are happily missing on the internet. 

-- 
Dave "Crash" Dummy - A weapon of mass destruction
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