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Hi all

I have zone alarm installed to protect my broadband connection but lately,
the las couple of days, I am being bombarded by Ping
requests from various ips (all starting 82.**.**.**). Ran ad aware to to see
if there were any malicious progs running but
nothing obvious.
Does anyone know what may be causing this or has had this problem b4.

Incidentally, since this started happening I can no longer connect to any
game servers on Gamespy (medal of honour).
Not sure if the 2 are connected.

Cheers
nilotic

nilotic said:

> Hi all
>
> I have zone alarm installed to protect my broadband connection but lately,
> the las couple of days, I am being bombarded by Ping
> requests from various ips (all starting 82.**.**.**). Ran ad aware to to see

Have you noticed that they are all from your own ISP's accounts?

> if there were any malicious progs running but
> nothing obvious.
> Does anyone know what may be causing this or has had this problem b4.

Yes, it all started a few weeks ago when someone decided to try to take out MS
server(s)
It was on the news, in the papers, and all over the net.

>
> Incidentally, since this started happening I can no longer connect to any
> game servers on Gamespy (medal of honour).

Yep, it's main intention is to disrupt the net.

> Not sure if the 2 are connected.
>
> Cheers
> nilotic

possibly the welchia virus. Do a virus check of your machine...
"nilotic" <> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> I have zone alarm installed to protect my broadband connection but lately,
> the las couple of days, I am being bombarded by Ping
> requests from various ips (all starting 82.**.**.**). Ran ad aware to to
see
> if there were any malicious progs running but
> nothing obvious.
> Does anyone know what may be causing this or has had this problem b4.
>
> Incidentally, since this started happening I can no longer connect to any
> game servers on Gamespy (medal of honour).
> Not sure if the 2 are connected.
>
> Cheers
> nilotic
>
>

"Brian H¹©" <> wrote in message
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> nilotic said:
>
> > Ok, bear with me cos I'm a bit of a noob at this...are you saying that I
have the MSBlaster virus or that it's the Blaster virus in
general(around the world) that is causing this.

Cheers(Told u I was a noob ) nilotic
>
>

nilotic said:

> "Brian H¹©" <> wrote in message
> news:eCkhb.10860$...
>> nilotic said:
>>
>>> Ok, bear with me cos I'm a bit of a noob at this...are you saying that I
> have the MSBlaster virus or that it's the Blaster virus in
> general(around the world) that is causing this.
>
> Cheers(Told u I was a noob ) nilotic

If it is bouncing off of your firewall, then your firewall is doing it's job in
protecting you.

nilotic said:

> "Brian H¹©" <> wrote in message
> news:WVkhb.10883$...
>> nilotic said:
>>
>>> "Brian H¹©" <> wrote in message
>>> news:eCkhb.10860$...
>>>> nilotic said:
>>>>
>>>>> Ok, bear with me cos I'm a bit of a noob at this...are you saying that
> I
>>> have the MSBlaster virus or that it's the Blaster virus in
>>> general(around the world) that is causing this.
>>>
>>> Cheers(Told u I was a noob ) nilotic
>>
>> If it is bouncing off of your firewall, then your firewall is doing it's job
>> in protecting you.
>
>
> Hi Brian
>
> Thnx for the info...much appreciated
>
> nilotic

YW

"Brian H¹©" <> wrote in message
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> nilotic said:
>
> > "Brian H¹©" <> wrote in message
> > news:eCkhb.10860$...
> >> nilotic said:
> >>
> >>> Ok, bear with me cos I'm a bit of a noob at this...are you saying that
I
> > have the MSBlaster virus or that it's the Blaster virus in
> > general(around the world) that is causing this.
> >
> > Cheers(Told u I was a noob ) nilotic
>
> If it is bouncing off of your firewall, then your firewall is doing it's
job in
> protecting you.


Hi Brian

Thnx for the info...much appreciated

nilotic

>
>

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 21:36:37 GMT, nilotic wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I have zone alarm installed to protect my broadband connection but lately,
>the las couple of days, I am being bombarded by Ping

Have you not looked at your ISPs groups, where possibly this is
discussed. Ping's only is a bit odd, but I don't know how ZA would
report what is currently going on on the BY network.

You could turn off the popups, and leave logging on, this is ZA simply
doing it's job.

>requests from various ips (all starting 82.**.**.**). Ran ad aware to to see

82 on it's own is a bit vague.

Since mid Aug, the 82 range has been swamped by continous ARPs, in IP
sequence like 82.x.x.1 - 82.x.x.2 - 82.x.x.3 etc. The CM activity LED
has been almost constantly on.

These can be seen on a DMZ PC (connected to the CM via a hub) but are
blocked by my router. The firewalls on the PCs just don't see that
traffic which is nice having 2 levels of filtering, several hours of
packet scans showed no sign of ping request/reply sequences.

Part of the issue IIRC, from reading BY posts is, most users moved to
the 82 range but the abuse scanner system was not configured for the 82
range. When I was on the 62 or 80 IPs every so often the abuse scanner
checked for open ports and BY took action to stop use of unprotected /
open servers running.

>if there were any malicious progs running but
>nothing obvious.

Depends if the direcion was outgoing or incoming.

>Does anyone know what may be causing this or has had this problem b4.

BY groups

blueyonder.discussion.hi-speed
blueyonder.games.general
blueyonder.users.security
blueyonder.users.self-help

>Incidentally, since this started happening I can no longer connect to any
>game servers on Gamespy (medal of honour).
>Not sure if the 2 are connected.

So you could connect before ZA was installed? ZA has been on a while or
just since you could not connect to the game? Maybe you need to tell ZA
to allow open ports for the game,
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/..._port_list.htm

Me