8,345,456+ attacks on firewall since 1/24/06 Normal?

Since installing zonealarm pro on 1/24/06 I have had 8,345,456+ attacks and over 85% have been high rated. Is this normal? It looks like a progressive jackpot at casino that keeps counting higher and higher. Any advice?

I don't know exact figures but it's probably normal. The only advice anyone can give you is to keep your firewall up. If you don't have a router, you can get one so it can block these connection attempts and your PC takes a lot less load.

I was given a school router that doesn't have a firewall on it. That could be why because I am use to having one at home that was a firewall.

Woah, I've had 45,882. 154 have been high rated and I've had ZoneAlarm for a while. Just an example.

[quoteaa20d69997="Driscollv2"]Since installing zonealarm pro on 1/24/06 I have had 8,345,456+ attacks and over 85% have been high rated. Is this normal? It looks like a progressive jackpot at casino that keeps counting higher and higher. Any advice?[/quoteaa20d69997]

stop looking at porn, that may help some.

Realize that the more attempts that a (free) software based firewall shows you, the more you're likely to "upgrade" and buy their full suite of software. 8mm seems high though.

I have pro though.

I have 186 in the last two months but I don't use it much.

Looks like there are a lot of people who want to fuck up your pc..lol

But yeah that is a hell of a lot..

What kind of "attacks"?

It might be normal. It doesn't sound like your school gave you a router, it sounds like they gave you a modem. All NAT routers inherently work as a firewall. Unless the router is configured to NAT liallli traffic to your PC, it should be blocking everything coming in from outside. Dong so will reduce the load on your PC.

I have a Linux router/gateway PC running iptables as my firewall. I had so many incoming attempts I had to stop logging them because my drive was churning non-stop. I run Kerio Personal Firewall (much better than ZA, IMO) for outbound reporting on my Windows PC, but nothing ever gets past the Linux firewall.

NAT acts as a kind of firewall it really offers little security. Could be that you are on a edu and just getting scanned a lot or it thinks something you do regularly is a threat.

Going off topic just for a second...how do you check the amount of attacks on your firewall?

I think software firewalls are kinda useless. I trust my hardware router...

[quote9ff3cafea6="Wolfeman"]I think software firewalls are kinda useless. I trust my hardware router...[/quote9ff3cafea6]
Well, it depends. If you subscribe to the theory of security in layers, as most diehard professional IT people do, then that's an extra layer.

Me, I consider them pretty much useless in practical terms for INBOUND traffic, since nothing is getting past my Linux gateway/firewall. However for outbound traffic that you may not want to get out (applications that "phone home," spyware, trojans, etc.) that hardware router isn't going to help you. You need a software firewall to pop up and ask if you want to allow this process to talk to the internet. Then you know who's trying to get out and can allow/deny at will.

That is unusually high.. It should be more in the 100,000-300,000 range.

good firewalls are ones who talk like this )


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i use my routers firewall. it works well enough, at least that I know of )

You are probably loaded with trojans and spyware. Here are some good free programs that I use, and I have never been hacked and my firewall only blocks like 100 every month.. S

Spybot S & D - Free
Ad-Aware - Free
AVG Anti-Virus - Free (WAY BETTER THAN NORTON AND MCAFEE)
ZoneAlarm - Free (I USE FREE BECAUSE PRO MAKES MY SPEED SLOW)

Also, Windows Defender is a EXCELLENT antispyware program also.

firewalls get me too paranoid, so i don't use em anymore p

[quotea82853e8a8="akalic"]firewalls get me too paranoid, so i don't use em anymore p[/quotea82853e8a8]

That'ssss right. They're not there if you can't see them, right? shrug