[CyclopsSlayer]

Back on May 5th I updated to a new version of my net security software so it reset all counters. I use ZoneAlarm Suite, which is a combined Firewall, Anti-virus, Messenger, Spyware and Adware.
Just now I happened to check the event counters, and was to put it mildly horrified...

caveat - I keep my system on and online pretty much 24/7

Intrusion Attempts (port scans etal): 1,628,933
Inbound Access Requests Blocked: 10,856,404
Outbound Access Requests Blocked: 979 (spyware/virii trying to phone home)
EMail attachemnets Blocked: 3
Viruses Treated: 11
Spyware Treated: 1079
IM Suspect messages blocked: 279

All that in a scant 4 months. Makes one rather paranoid, but then again they ARE out to get you!

[Fozzik]

So I'm guessing you don't have a router? A lot of that will flatline if you hook up some nice network address translation.

It's the numbers it doesn't catch that would worry me. hehe...hopefully that was all of it.

[CyclopsSlayer]

Originally Posted by Fozzik

So I'm guessing you don't have a router? A lot of that will flatline if you hook up some nice network address translation.

It's the numbers it doesn't catch that would worry me. hehe...hopefully that was all of it.

That's what got past my cable modem, supposedly has a hardware firewall in it, lol, yeah right...

That was indeed all of it, ZA blocks behaviour as well as the known list, and that seems to have got it all.