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  • 01-03-2009 8:24pm
    #1
    Potency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭


    Hey, I'm not to good with security but I just had a look at my firewall logs and found that it's blocked hundreds of incoming connections, that's fine but some of then appear 20-30 times... what's the story? Are they just pinging me or actually trying to hack me or what? Maybe i'm being paranoid but prefer to be on the safe side. Anyone got an idea? All on port 49100 (the ones that appear lots).

    Oh, and i'm downloading as well, that could be the problem (P2P)


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  • #2
    neonic75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭neonic75


    Chances are that on your peer to peer network people trying to conect to you are being refused by your firewall. Depending on the network your using you may find better download speeds if disable firewall. of course this is a guess. check the logs while connected to the p2p net and see if they are incoming. check again after disconnecting. if the connections only happen when connected to p2p id say its a safe bet that its the network causing it


  • #3
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    don't disable the firewall


  • #4
    neonic75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭neonic75


    mukki wrote: »
    don't disable the firewall

    If he's using a p2p client that takes ratio of upload to download into account AND in the incoming packets are confirmed to be from the p2p network then I would have no trouble disabling the firewall while downloading. Safe as houses


  • #5
    JimmyCrackCorn!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JimmyCrackCorn!


    neonic75 wrote: »
    Chances are that on your peer to peer network people trying to conect to you are being refused by your firewall. Depending on the network your using you may find better download speeds if disable firewall. of course this is a guess. check the logs while connected to the p2p net and see if they are incoming. check again after disconnecting. if the connections only happen when connected to p2p id say its a safe bet that its the network causing it

    Bad advice
    mukki wrote: »
    don't disable the firewall

    Sensible good advice
    neonic75 wrote: »
    If he's using a p2p client that takes ratio of upload to download into account AND in the incoming packets are confirmed to be from the p2p network then I would have no trouble disabling the firewall while downloading. Safe as houses

    More bad advice.


    Explanation

    Normal Noise from worms causes a massive amount of dropped connections.

    Usually get a hit every second or so.This is what firewalls are there for and why they dont tell you with a big message box they dropped connections any more..

    Turn it off at your peril.


    Helpful stuff:
    Enable port forwarding and ensure your p2p client is receiving connections properly.

    Use the half open sockets patch (google it)

    Patch your Pc.
    http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
    http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/

    After that Check your PC with this
    http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/


  • #6
    neonic75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭neonic75


    ha ha...cowards


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  • #7
    Potency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭Potency


    Thanks all for the advice, just a spur of the moment thing when i saw the blocks but figured out it only happens when i'm using p2p.


  • #8
    FruitLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    neonic75 wrote: »
    I would have no trouble disabling the firewall while downloading. Safe as houses

    Haha! You're funny.

    :rolleyes:


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