i.e., the background ICMP radiation that resulted from the "BBN Bang" about 45 years ago :) Anyways...yes, Zone Alarm is less a firewall and more of a "random stuff notification and feel-good suite". Anyone who follows BugTraq can that you that it has opened up more holes than it actually protects. ZoneAlarm exists more to just beep and blink and make you feel really good, while sucking huge objects through straws and plotting against you behind your back. I couldn't recommend any firewall that doesn't run on a dedicated machine, or is Windows-based (although this is getting harder to justify, since MS seems to be cleaning up the TCP stack...), isn't ICSA certified, is annoying (in general), and is annoying (in respects to making users call) And I would definately wonder why my firewall software logged source UDP/53 (DNS) response packets as suspicious...grrrr...fscking Zone Alarm... A firewall is like a child, it should be neither seen nor heard, preferrably locked up in a closet for the first 18 years. On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 21:03, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > This is the background noise of the internet, ignore it. > > (And stop supporting crap software companies like zone alarm) > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:06:33PM -0600, K B wrote: > > Anyone else on Qwest dialup (DSL perhaps as well) for their ISP? My friend and I are both getting pinged constantly by various hosts on Qwest...IPs are in the 67.x.x.x range, all from various cities in the US. Any clue wether these are infected clients or servers? Zonealarm failed once and took out my friend's Windows Media Player codecs (all were toast- only had .WAV support left) > > > > Just trying to figure it out before I give their tech support the old run-around. Then again, last time the qwest email had problems, got right on the phone with techs and dealt with it. > > > > Thanks guys. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list