Originally posted here by Dealt
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.
It's a side effect of all the viruses running rampant on the Internet.
As for protecting yourself against it, you're allready doing it by running a firewall.