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Zone Alarm Pro throwing up alerts a hojillion times a day

  • 05-11-2004 3:31pm
    #1
    calhob_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 404 ✭✭


    Just installed Zone Alarm pro and AVG 6.0 last night in preperation for moving to broadband. Scanned with AVG and was clear and also used Ad-aware and Spybot SD and was also clear.

    Now the thing is I was surfing about last night as usual on the dialup and when I was finished I had a look at the Zonealarm control panel and it said it had blocked over 100 attempts to access my comp with about 15 of those being "high priority". Is that normal?

    Thats a hell of a lot of muppets trying to access my comp if it is.

    Im scared now!

    Cheers

    Chris


Comments

  • #2
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    ah tis normal. Its mostly harmless. I wouldn't be surprised if it all was harmless, but still, there will be one eventually that won't be, and thats when you need the firewall.


  • #3
    Sleipnir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    ara most of it is pretty harmless. Kids running port scanners and the like but little else.
    I wouldn't be too worried.


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    They're probably attempts by viruses to access your machine. It'd be rare enough to find a person actively trying to hack into your machine. Port scans would be much less rare though.

    Have you a log, or details on some of these "high priority" ones?

    I assume like all the rest, that ZA allows you to ignore certain attacks (while still blockign them obviously).


  • #5
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    I know what you mean. I was shocked when I first installed ZoneAlarm and so the amount of attempts. I don't think it's really anything to worry about though. It's not a load of people trying to access your computer, but rather webpages and stuff trying to scan your system, usually for advertising and other rubbish like that. I think the best thing to do is to not think about it! It's what I do and life couldn't be better. ;)


  • #6
    calhob_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 404 ✭✭calhob_ie


    Ah, thats allright then.

    I thought some nefarious bunch of hackers, possibly headed by the never ageing Robert Redford, were sitting in a darkened room somewhere personally singling me out for their evil schemes.

    Evidently not though.

    Cheers lads.

    Chris


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  • #7
    Blub2k4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭Blub2k4


    Turning off alerting is the best way to deal with this, assume the firewall is doing it's job, that stuff is all just internet white noise.


  • #8
    anthonymcg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭anthonymcg


    Blub2k4 wrote:
    Turning off alerting is the best way to deal with this, assume the firewall is doing it's job, that stuff is all just internet white noise.

    What he said.


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