Incoming connections blocked

My brothers computer which I reloaded about three weeks ago already has blocked 500,000 incoming connections according to zone alarm.

He has no spyware and no viruses...

Whats wrong? Where is this coming from and how do I get it to stop?

It's called "the internet"

And you get it to stop by throwing worthless alarmist software which needs to panic the user to justify its existence away

maybe try sygate fire wall. There is a free version at www.sygate.com

I've been running it for a long time with no problems at all.

Plenty of other options out there. Never liked zonealarm myself.

IS he behind a router or connected directly to the modem?

directly to the cable modem. I have the same provider and dont have nearly the amount and we live a block away from each other

Tell him to stay away from warez sites

On a side note, the NF4 Nvidia A64 firewall is pretty nice.

It is called background noise, and is usually due to someone else having had your ip adress, before you got it. There is always the chance of being attacked, but on my machine "13277 intrusions have been blocked since install." I reformatted, and re-installed everything 1 month ago, so its nothing to worry aboot.

For fun, when I figured out what the Whois database is/does I used to look up the people who were trying to connect to my pc. Most of them came from china, and North Korea?!? I'm no terrorist...

Whois for Northern America:
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_...id=12NM310PVVOSMCWMEAQSFEY?_requestid=1002956

Whois for Korea:
http://whois.nida.or.kr/english/index.html

Whois for Asia pacific:
http://www.apnic.net/

viva la geeks! Enjoy.

klingens said:

It's called "the internet"

And you get it to stop by throwing worthless alarmist software which needs to panic the user to justify its existence away

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If he isn't behind a firewall/router already, then I would keep ZA, or buy a router.