You're most likely seeing the blocked attempts to access your system being
stopped by the firewall. How to interpret your base station log is covered
in this article:
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/br..._log_file.mspx
These days, with all the different virus strains going around, it is not
unusual for a lot of attempts to access the systems. I don't see as many as
a lot of people, but my ISP wisely blocked several incoming ports.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Mikey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is everyone getting these messages in the Base Station Security Log or is
it
> just a few of us?
>
> I get these 24/7 and there are many different source IPs.
>
> If these are real attempts to get past the firewall, then how are people
> getting my IP? From message boards? Random attempts? And what can be done
to
> slow the attempts? People without firewalls enabled must get hacked all
the
> time!
>
> I think these really started after the last updates, but I am not sure.
>
> PLEASE REPLY:
>
> Do you get these in your security log as often as I do?
>
>
> 2004/01/28 17:18:52 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<64.71.165.195:54464> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:3668>
> 2004/01/28 17:18:55 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<64.71.165.195:54464> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:3668>
> 2004/01/28 17:19:01 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<64.71.165.195:54464> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:3668>
> 2004/01/28 17:19:07 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<64.71.165.195:54831> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:3669>
> 2004/01/28 17:19:10 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<64.71.165.195:54831> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:3669>
> 2004/01/28 17:19:16 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<64.71.165.195:54831> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:3669>
> 2004/01/28 17:19:22 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<64.71.165.195:55143> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:81>
> 2004/01/28 17:19:25 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<64.71.165.195:55143> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:81>
> 2004/01/28 17:19:31 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<64.71.165.195:55143> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:81>
> 2004/01/28 17:23:23 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<200.146.58.43:777> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:1026>
> 2004/01/28 17:24:06 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<68.80.113.91:1171> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:80>
> 2004/01/28 17:24:10 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<68.80.113.91:1171> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:80>
> 2004/01/28 17:29:01 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<212.204.27.60:25839> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:1433>
> 2004/01/28 17:36:04 Client filtering settings blocked connection from IP
> address <68.83.208.179>
> 2004/01/28 17:36:55 Client filtering settings blocked connection from IP
> address <68.80.151.162>
> 2004/01/28 17:41:24 Client filtering settings blocked connection from IP
> address <68.78.115.177>
> 2004/01/28 17:46:13 Connection attempt to base station from WAN blocked --
> src:<65.104.206.14:4599> dst:<68.80.xx.yyy:17300>
>
>
>