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Basically, recently I have been recieving notices from my firewall (PC-cillin) of Ping attacks and Netbios browsing warnings almost continuously whilst I am connected. I was wondering two things really, what is the impact of ping attacks on my connection and secondly what means of protection can I use.. like to mask my IP or other.
A few things. How often are the pings attacks and do they happen in some sort of pattern (in groups or every so many per minute)? Evidentally, they aren't detrimental enough to prevent you from surfing the internet so the impact is minimal. As for NetBIOS there are a variety of worms and other beasties out there that will mimic or cause this. I wouldn't worry about it since your firewall seems to be stopping this.