A visit to www.grc.com might be informative... Gibson research doeas a lot of work, and provides a lot of information, about various kinds of internet shenanigans. I can't tell you exactly where to look there, but it won't take too long to figure it out. It sounds like someone might be attempting a "denial of service" attack on your computer.
It would be worth looking up the address of the machine sending those ping packets to figure out where they are coming from. www.arin.net might be of help with that. Good luck... Bill McIntyre wrote: >When I got a cable connection, I bought Net Barrier, a firewall program. >After initial setup I have never thought about it, but over the last year >or so I have received a total of three "Ping flooding" alerts, the latest >a few minutes ago. It gives me the IP of the sender and lets me put the >sender on a stop list. > >Could someone explain what ping flooding is and why I should care about >it? > >Thanks. > >Bill McIntyre >San Clemente,CA > >______________________________________________________________ >Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of >Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain >_____________________________________________________________ > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
