hello

as i newbie i got loadsa questions that id like answering..but most of these ill find answers to in other posts

what it is i been getting alerts in my firewall (i get told most of these are legitimate traffic) but as i read through these forums ive tryed one of those whois websites and the ips that i check are from various places but a commom factor is they all say there ip pools or something(sorry i cant be more pacific)

what is an ip pool????

i have recieived one of these from my service provider...which i thought nothing of(as i dont do anything illegal on my pc so dont care if my ip mointors what i do)

but what aroused my suspicions is when i started gettin these ip pool thingys of isp's i dont or never have used

any ideas???? also could someone help me on how to understand what these whois websites are tryin to tell me????? as i have noticed that no one gives instructions for the complete thicko (me)

cheers

waterboy