[Coco] Firewall Alerts

[Jim Cox]

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:38:44 -0600
  Alan Jones <ojones at elp.rr.com> wrote:
> PaulH96636 at aol.com wrote:
>> I've been on AOL for many years.  AOL seems to have a 
>>great spam  blocker 
>> built into v9.0SE
>> as I get less than a dozen spams per week.  I know this 
>>sounds like a  plug, 
>> but that's the
>> way it is, (with Verizon DSL too).
>>  
>> Still haven't received any replies regarding an 
>>experience using dial-up  and 
>> getting dozens of
>> firewall alerts reporting remote computers trying to 
>>access my  computer.  
>> Guess no one else
>> has gotten the same result.
>>  
>> -ph
>>
>>   
> Paul,
> I have gotten those alerts before even when I was using 
>dial up. I quit using dialup about two years ago. I used 
>to us ZoneAlarm firewall and it would tell me when 
>someone else was trying to access my computer. I didn't 
>worry about it because ZoneAlarm locked them out. But it 
>was amazing to see how many times I was getting "probed." 
>:)
> I use Symantec Client Firewall now and it works very 
>well.
> 
> Alan
> 

I remember someone recently conducting a study where they 
had two identical systems running XP SP2 with XP's 
firewall turned on and no other security such as a 
hardware firewall.

One system was on DSL, the other was on Dialup.  The 
number of hits were almost the same.

-Jim Cox
http://www.miba51.com/