"Gary Heston" <gheston@hiwaay.net> wrote

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It's not MS Blaster, it's the SOBIG.F email worm. MS Blaster and
Wachia (the anti-blaster disaster) target the RPC port instead of
doing a ping.

Okay, whichever, I wish it would just DIE. ;-)

Oh well, I guess it will die away after some time - not much else I can

do

about it with my current equipment...

I'm on a dialup link; I've been seeing 300 or more pings in an evening

from

SOBIG.F. The spam filter at work is trapping over 500 email attempts per
day;

I'm using the 'virus & spam' filter at BTinternet & it seems to wok fairly
well - some spam gets through, which I eliminate with 'mailwasher', but I
haven't seen any viruses...

the firewall is blocking the ping traffic.

This they just let through. :-(

See if you can turn off ICMP responses in your modem;
if activity is determined by outgoing traffic, that would
solve your problem.

No option available unfortunately. :-(

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...