Re: how to trace someone's IP address

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 11/05/05

  • Next message: Wesley Vogel: "Re: how to trace someone's IP address" 
    Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:25:53 -0600

    I believe you mean your firewall detected the port scans. Software firewalls
    are often bundled with anti virus programs these days. My advice is just
    ignore it and be glad your firewall is doing its job. Your ISP may also be
    doing this to check four quality of service, etc. You are not alone in
    seeing this and it should be considered normal. At one time when worm
    activity was high I was seeing thousands of attempts to access my network
    every hour in the firewall logs. If you believe that someone is launching a
    denial of service attack directly against you contact your ISP. Such an
    event would show hundreds if not thousands of events in your log every
    minute from the same source IP. --- Steve

    "new office 2003 user" <newoffice2003user@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
    in message news:7EB53C84-F263-4CEC-9B78-065998103FA1@microsoft.com...
    > Hello,
    > Thank you in advance for replying to this issue. My antivirus software has
    > blocked several port scans that were done to my computer, the all have the
    > same IP address. My antivirus software show me the IP address where it
    > came
    > from. What should I do to? How can I send a message to that IP (step by
    > step
    > instructions) to tell them to stop scanning my ports, and is my idea of
    > letting them know that I can see there IP make me vulnerable by doing
    > this?
    >
    > Thank You

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