Zone Alarm Shows 80,000 Intrusions. Help !

[netfreak]

If you are on a LAN connection with TATA, then it must be some PC on LAN that is infected and looking for buddies.

 

[amit_dp]

Don't know the exact reason however-
If ur playing Youtube videos and in between streaming you put on the intrernet lock in Zonealarm the number of incoming intrusion increase at enormous pace!!
Same might be true for other application like torrent.
Hmm.. you might be right. However question still remains why so many intrusions on Tata Indicom and not a single on BSNL ??

If you are on a LAN connection with TATA, then it must be some PC on LAN that is infected and looking for buddies.
No Im not on Lan ...

 

[netfreak]

What kind of connection do you have? Is it a DSL connection?

 

[Crazysah]

Howcome I get some though not as many as what he gets and I am using Norton?

 

[meaculpa]

Amit, did you check the log? Chances are pretty high that it's treating inward traffic as intrusions. I don't have any idea why it happens more with 1 ISP than another.I had the same problem when I was running Zone Alarm last year and like you I freaked out. And my very non-tech solution was to uninstall it and then I lived happily ever after Incidentally, the speed of page download also increased after that.

 

[Sushubh]

i am sounding a bit idiotic here. but firewall is doing the job it is supposed to do.if it is blocking intrusions, its a good thing. right?

 

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[meaculpa]

He is right about Zone Alarm showing more intrusions though. My reading of that was that they wanted to impress users to upgrade to the paid version by showing it was performing its job very efficiently(My cynical advertising mind!)

 

[amit_dp]

i am sounding a bit idiotic here. but firewall is doing the job it is supposed to do.

if it is blocking intrusions, its a good thing. right?
U Are right Sushubh, ZA is doing its job, however my question is, is there someone who is trying to get into my PC desperately OR if ZA is doing some mistake and stopping some of my Bandwidth.. ?

He is right about Zone Alarm showing more intrusions though. My reading of that was that they wanted to impress users to upgrade to the paid version by showing it was performing its job very efficiently

(My cynical advertising mind!)
Hey meaculpa,

You have a point here... I'll search the net to get some Facts....

 

[Sushubh]

umm ZA would not stop legitimate traffic. though the speeds might suffer due to all the analyzing going on. ZA on our systems here resulted in crawling speeds as it consumes too many resources. thank god for linux... i have better things to consume computer resources with.

 

[amit_dp]

Guys,I think I have found one Culprit. Its Bit Comet. however, Bitcomet is not the only culprit. Yesterday i did a test. I restarted my machine, logged on to internet and monitered Zone Alarm with no appliactions running. At that time the rate of intrusions was around 1 intrusion per 30-45 Sec (Ideally it should have been 0). Then I gradually started applications like messengers, browsers did some surfing etc. the rate was same.Then I started bit comet and intrusions went to their peak i.e. around 2 intrusions per Second. The strange thing in this is the intrusions did not drop even after closing Bit Comet. So now can anyone comment on this, keeping in mind that Bit comet is not the only cause, but a major factor for the intrusions. As stated above that even with no applications running intrusions are happening but with a low rate.Thx in AdvanceAmit