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Hi, I've got a situation here and wondered if any of you could shed
some light.

I noticed my cable modem's 'activity' light' flashing like crazy, when
i didn't have any 'internet accessing' programs running. I checked my
firewall logs and it appears that i'm getting repeated and steady
'echo requests' .... all from some 'videotron.ca' ... Here are a few
of the entries from the log, of who's trying to ping me....

ICMP Traffic n/a modemcable061.58-202-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca Echo
Request/0 Inbound ICMP

ICMP Traffic n/a modemcable119.92-203-24.sherb.mc.videotron.ca Echo
Request/0 Inbound ICMP

ICMP Traffic n/a modemcable094.82-203-24.hull.mc.videotron.ca Echo
Request/0 Inbound ICMP

ICMP Traffic n/a town.&.country2.24.207.159.109.charter-stl.com Echo
Request/0 Inbound ICMP

It's always from 'videotron.ca' or 'charter stl.com' ....... and
this has been going on for 7 hours ............ although my firewall
says it's blocking connection.

I'm a little worried, is this some kind of hacker attempt, or some
spyware thing, or just what..... I ran Hijack This, Ad-Aware, Spybot,
did a full scan with my AV software.... and it's still happening.

If anyone can shed some light on this I'd really appreciate it, thank
you in advance.

Susan

This happens occasionally, just ignore it.
I've been pinged over 500 times today.


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:50:43 -0500, Susan <> wrote in
24hoursupport.helpdesk:

>Hi, I've got a situation here and wondered if any of you could shed
>some light.
>
>I noticed my cable modem's 'activity' light' flashing like crazy, when
>i didn't have any 'internet accessing' programs running. I checked my
>firewall logs and it appears that i'm getting repeated and steady
>'echo requests' .... all from some 'videotron.ca' ... Here are a few
>of the entries from the log, of who's trying to ping me....
<snip>

Susan wrote:
> Hi, I've got a situation here and wondered if any of you could shed
> some light.
>
> I noticed my cable modem's 'activity' light' flashing like crazy,
> when i didn't have any 'internet accessing' programs running. I
> checked my firewall logs and it appears that i'm getting repeated
> and steady 'echo requests' .... all from some 'videotron.ca' ...
> Here are a few of the entries from the log, of who's trying to ping
> me....
>
> ICMP Traffic n/a modemcable061.58-202-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca Echo
> Request/0 Inbound ICMP
>
> ICMP Traffic n/a modemcable119.92-203-24.sherb.mc.videotron.ca Echo
> Request/0 Inbound ICMP
>
> ICMP Traffic n/a modemcable094.82-203-24.hull.mc.videotron.ca Echo
> Request/0 Inbound ICMP
>
> ICMP Traffic n/a town.&.country2.24.207.159.109.charter-stl.com Echo
> Request/0 Inbound ICMP
>
> It's always from 'videotron.ca' or 'charter stl.com' ....... and
> this has been going on for 7 hours ............ although my firewall
> says it's blocking connection.
>
> I'm a little worried, is this some kind of hacker attempt, or some
> spyware thing, or just what..... I ran Hijack This, Ad-Aware,
> Spybot, did a full scan with my AV software.... and it's still
> happening.
>
> If anyone can shed some light on this I'd really appreciate it,
> thank you in advance.

It's certainly normal for my ISP so I wouldn't worry.

By the way I do hope that your Spam filters are up to scratch as you,
apparently, haven't munged your email adress..

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Deal with it!!

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:06:24 +0100, "Kraftee"
<> wrote:

>By the way I do hope that your Spam filters are up to scratch as you,
>apparently, haven't munged your email adress..

Really poor comma placement.......

Susan wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:06:24 +0100, "Kraftee"
> <> wrote:
>
>> By the way I do hope that your Spam filters are up to scratch as
>> you, apparently, haven't munged your email adress..
>
> Really poor comma placement.......

Each to their own..

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Life is pain.....
Deal with it!!