Posted By: Jema
ZoneAlarm Alerts - 08/29/05 09:39 PM
First, a little background. When the Cox High Speed Internet Service became available in this ares, I subscribed to and used it until I moved to Charlottesville in June 2003. I also installed the ZoneAlarm Free firewall. The cable modem I rented from Cox did not have a standby button, so I was connected to the net all the time. During that time, the largest monthly ZA log file I ever had was about 30 kb, and I think that was when someone was looking for vulnerable systems to spread a virus.
I moved back here in January of this year and once again subscribed to Cox HSI Service. Now I own a modem with a standby button and I keep it on standby when I'm not doing anything on the net. But, oh my, what a difference in the size of my ZA logs! A monthly log now is well over 1 MB!
I finally did some checking. It took a long time, but I identified a dozen or so IPs (mostly in China) all on the Asian Pacific Network that continuously try to connect to my computer whenever I don't have the modem on standby.
I went through a month's log and deleted all the entries for those IPs and the size of the log dropped from over 1 MB to about 120 kb, so those IPs account for more than 4/5 of the entries in my ZA logs.
I called Cox Support because I thought and hoped they could stop these intrusion attempts at their server level, but I was told they couldn't.
Thank goodness ZA is doing it's job so well.
Now, after that long-winded explanation (I hope you're still reading ), I have two questions.
1. Is there anything I can do to keep these intrusion attempts from ever reaching my computer?
and
2. Could this constant barrage in any way affect my connection when I'm on the net including surfing and/or download speeds?
Thanks much for any help or suggestions.
Jema
I moved back here in January of this year and once again subscribed to Cox HSI Service. Now I own a modem with a standby button and I keep it on standby when I'm not doing anything on the net. But, oh my, what a difference in the size of my ZA logs! A monthly log now is well over 1 MB!
I finally did some checking. It took a long time, but I identified a dozen or so IPs (mostly in China) all on the Asian Pacific Network that continuously try to connect to my computer whenever I don't have the modem on standby.
I went through a month's log and deleted all the entries for those IPs and the size of the log dropped from over 1 MB to about 120 kb, so those IPs account for more than 4/5 of the entries in my ZA logs.
I called Cox Support because I thought and hoped they could stop these intrusion attempts at their server level, but I was told they couldn't.
Thank goodness ZA is doing it's job so well.
Now, after that long-winded explanation (I hope you're still reading ), I have two questions.
1. Is there anything I can do to keep these intrusion attempts from ever reaching my computer?
and
2. Could this constant barrage in any way affect my connection when I'm on the net including surfing and/or download speeds?
Thanks much for any help or suggestions.
Jema