On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:04:05 -0000, gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston)
wrote:

In article <ct4879$h24$1@tioat.ath.cx>, Puddin <Puddin@dodgeit.com> wrote:

Gary Heston wrote:

In article <ct1m54$pnr$1@tioat.ath.cx>, Puddin <Puddin@dodgeit.com>

 wrote: [ ... ]

Disable it long enough to attempt a connection to the SETI@BOINC
server; if the connection works, you need to adjust the settings
on your firewally. If it doesn't, the problem isn't the firewall.

Reactivate it immediately after the test.

My system has been probed 500 times over the last two days and
nine hours--and this is over a dialup link that is not up 24/7.

wow they want you bad<G>

It's like that for virtually everyone; most people just don't 
realize it's happening. Worms and scans, for the most part.

Actually ALOT of the scans are from your own ISP, they try to enforce
the no serving of files pretty heavily. ALL ISP's do this.
You can download and upload all you want, within their unwritten
guidelines, but if you have open ports that are used by servers so
others can come to you and get files, that is not allowed by most
ISP's. If they can cut down on this, the ISP usually has no problems
wth bandwidth for you and I.