My concern for you is whether something on your side is infected. The firewall
model is often called "crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside." Fixing
your firewall to block outside does not solve a problem on the inside.
Connections coming from the outside are often initiated from the inside.
I have been working with this Arm based grapeboard for a consulting project:
https://www.grapeboard.com/ It has dual ethernet. IF I get some bandwidth, big
if, I also plan to turn this into a more sophisticated firewall and network
monitor that could be put inline with any machine. Tracking malware activity is
difficult unless you have tools that are not on the machines potentially
infected.
WayneSHacker
At 3/1/2019 06:23 AM, you wrote:
> It's actually a 56K US Robotics modem. With these slower connection
> speeds you notice the intrusions more readily. On my WinXP laptops I have a
> firewall called Peer Block that is much easier to use than the Windows
> firewall on the Win7 machines. It is stuffed full of IP addresses from all
> over that were not only trying to get into the machine but which were
> sometimes using me as a reflector. The ones from the Sychelle and Maldive
> islands were a bit of a surprise.
>
> Having used that firewall with a couple of other resources showed me just
> how widespread the prominent cloudfront and 1e100 are. They each use up
> large blocks of IP addresses and do virtually nothing, so it seems. Google
> claims that their 1e100 system is doing nothing more than protecting their
> equipment. Uh-huh.
>
>>
>>> Whenever I see my connection speed slow down, I take a quick
>>>look with a TCP viewing utility. The usual suspects have been
>>>cloudfront and 1e100.net (Google). This microsoft-ds is fairly new.
>>
>>I'm surprised that your 14.4 modem even works! If your network
>>connection was any slower, you could grow mushrooms in it.
>>
>
>
>Chris
>
>When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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