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???firewall has blocked access......???

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by jdporrata

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I am a personl computer user and I just installed a firewall (ZoneAlarm) to protect my personal computer from hacker attacks and also to se how this firewall worked. After instaling the software i started to get warnings from the firewall that certain IP addresses were tring to access my computer. What does this mean are people realy tring to access my computer?

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by taqwus

There is really no need to worry about that unless you see a number trying repeatedly.
The hits you are getting are just mis-routed packets.
Also, if you are using @home you will get quite a lot from 24.0.0.3 using the NNTP protocol that is just amodem polling.
If you want to see how secure your system is go to www.grc.com and do the shields up test

by davgordon

If you read through Zone Alarms site it will explain alot of this. @home will constatntly hit your computer if you use them. If you see a ip address constantly comming up you can do a reverse look up on it. If you are unsure on how to do this Zone Alarms help files will show you how to do this.

by rmensah1

You should very concern if you have DSL or Cable connection.
There is war going on DSL and cable.

by grizzlybear001

Zone alarm Blocks all attempts to access your PC and depending what isp you are using you will get pinged by the to see if you are using there program also you can report as internet abuse by doing the following copy and paste all information on your log file and paste into an e-mail to your ISP I personally just leave it MS and a lot of your programs you use will ping you when you use them Hope this helps.The main thing is they are being blocked

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