My Firewall Is Getting Pinged At A Rate Of 10 Per Second...

arwalden

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Sun Oct-19-03 11:37 PM
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My Firewall Is Getting Pinged At A Rate Of 10 Per Second...

Clearly, there are some Comcast users whose computers are infected with some sort of self-replicating virus that's CONSTANTLY seeking new hosts on the same network.

It's driving me NUTS!! I can't get OUT!

Even though I know that I'm not PERSONALLY being targeted, it's the equivalent of a Denial Of Service attack.

-- Allen

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BattyDem

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Sun Oct-19-03 11:45 PM
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1. I'm going through the same thing ...

Edited on Sun Oct-19-03 11:45 PM by BattyDem

but not as bad. I get one ping about every 5-10 seconds from the same servers over and over again. Some Road Runner users are definitely infected because it won't stop. I'm just glad I have a firewall. Without it, my pc would have been toast by now.

edited for spelling

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mikehiggins

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Sun Oct-19-03 11:50 PM
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2. firewalls and antivirus and Xblock, oh my!

How anyone can operate a computer connected to a network and not use a firewall and an anti-virus program (I use two) is beyond me. Periodically, I use Xblock to clean out all the nooks and crannies, use Kremlin to erase all the blank space on my harddrive, defrag, then use Kremlin again to erase the space freed up by the harddrive.

Sure I'm paranoid but my machine is pristine and I am willing to take the time to maintain it that way.

Oh, and I use an online backup service AND backup to CD's on a regular basis.

We live in interesting times.

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BattyDem

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Sun Oct-19-03 11:57 PM
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3. I'm "over-protected" too

Edited on Mon Oct-20-03 12:10 AM by BattyDem

The firewall, the anti-virus and Pest-Patrol are always running.
I also run Ad-Aware, SpyBot and Spy Sweeper on a regular basis. :crazy:

I tell everyone I know to get a firewall and virus protection. Most of them laugh and say, "Oh, I don't have anything valuable on my computer." Of course, they eventually get infected with a virus and I'm the first person they call for help! :eyes:

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SharonAnn

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Mon Oct-20-03 12:00 AM
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4. My husband and I do computer work here in an active retirement

community. Despit the well-attended computer club meetings and articles in our community newspaper over the last 3 years, we still get computers in that have no anti-virus running on them. And, they are virus infected. One of them, last week, had 8 viruses/worms. It's amazing that it was running at all. We had a terrible time cleaning it up so that we could get it running OK and install an anti-virus program.

I don't know, you tell 'em and tell 'em but some just don't listen.

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madfloridian

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Mon Oct-20-03 12:03 AM
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5. Just now I had Word try to access the internet! Firewall blocked it.

Now that is just plain weird. I was here at DU, had an AOL pop up, or pop-under, whatever. Suddenly Word was trying to gain internet access.

Looks like it has stopped now. Ran Spybot, nothing. Running Norton AV now..

Once Messenger kept trying to do that, almost a thousand times. I had it disabled at start up and never use it. I got the Shoot the Messenger from www.grc.com and that shut it up.

XP has so many flaws! And have you heard what the next windows will be called? Longhorn.. Hope they are kidding!!

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Jim Sagle

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Mon Oct-20-03 12:43 AM
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6. Would MS steer you wrong?

;-)

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Supply Side Jesus

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Mon Oct-20-03 01:10 AM
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7. glad i aiont the only one!

comcast user also, and its been non-stop for the last 2 days...
i was starting to think some freeper minded people were behind it.. :tinfoilhat:

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Old and In the Way

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Mon Oct-20-03 01:33 AM
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8. If you are using Zone-Alarm, you can turn the flag off

Still protects, but you won't have to "OK" it everytime...

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JackSwift

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Mon Oct-20-03 02:31 AM
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9. If you are attacked that often,

it's time to log off for half an hour.

Windows XP has a firewall built in. I've been rebuilding my hard drive and will add Norton to that soon.

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Elidor

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Mon Oct-20-03 03:18 AM
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10. I've had that for months

I'm on Charter, and I use Zone Alarm. But even when I'm not surfing, my activity light is constantly strobing, and I get so many pings that Zone Alarm stops logging after 500.

I use Win98 at home, and I've never bothered with most of the security upgrades, so I'm probably infected with all kinds of shit to enable some dumbass's DOS attack. But my pooter does okay for the ancient POS it is.

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LiberalSailor

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Mon Oct-20-03 03:22 AM
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11. Attbi to Comcast

Shifting form attbi to comcastI noticed a huge increas in attacks a day. could also be because i had my system unguarded for awhile and had a couple trojans i let run for awhile (yeah i know im scum) but the comcast network is definetly bad.

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Throckmorton

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Mon Oct-20-03 05:48 PM
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12. And to think that once on a camping trip in the ninth grade,

i got my firewall pinged 6 times in one night and was sore all week.

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