Originally posted here by nihil
Not to clear about your system, but if you are connected to the internet then you will get these probes.............they are bots/infected machines running automatic scans of IP address ranges mostly.

Over here I get quite a lot of them, they used to mostly come from machines on my ISP sub-net. It could also be some skiddie messing around, but the chances of finding you would be pretty remote I would have thought.

At the end of the day it is not the ones your firewall blocks that matter................it is the ones it doesn't
Hi nihil,

I guess i have a question for you...
Some days back i was looking at my firewall daily logs and i noticed a weird thing a web site(don't want to give out name it was a pakistani web site) trying to connect on a perticular port on my machine(sorry i don't remember port number).

Then some days later anather weird incident a perticular Ip address tried to connect to a perticular port on my system.
That Ip Address was from somewhere in amsterdam.
Now the most important part of this is that my system is connected to internet through a proxy server(Which basically means that it is a illegal connection).
i am not sure what they were trying to do specially that web site.

Any idea???