Hello, I Know Not !!1

No need to apologise for anything my friend. I've been suffering from an extreme lack of sleep lately so my responses probably reflect that.
I went out and bought a cheap used computer about 6 mths ago, upgraded it and spent the first 3 mths trying to figure it out...when I went on the net I almost immediately started to look for these kinds of forums to learn more. It's a little odd for me because most of the experts on these forums are younger than my son (24) and in some cases as young as 14 ( can you imagine being 17 in grade 12 and on the first day of school you discover when you go to math class your teacher is eight years old )...so I'm kinda out of my element in more ways than one.


Yes I have gone to Black Viper but he doesn't accept e-mails anymore but I did print off the 45 page configuration list he had...and I do need to correct a couple of things but my problem is I don't know how to change the settings. And I notice I have some items that are not even on his list.

I just upgraded Zone Alarm and I do have information pop-ups on "not to display"...of the now 3288 attempted intrusions about 99% of them have been the TCP (flags:s) type and most of the rest UPD with only a few ICMP.

Yeh...you're probably right about being delusional ...it amazes me how smart the kids on these forums are and how young some are...when I was fourteen it definitely was a different world.

Thanks for the welcome!!!

I don't know if this means anything or not but I've been checking my system information out piece by piece to see if anything looks out of place...in Components-network-protocol there are three items listed: 2 listed as MSAFD Tcpip [ TCP/IP ]
2 listed as RSUP UPD Service Provider
10 listed as MSAFD NETBIOS [ \Device\NetBT_T...
could these have anything to do with the problem?
I've also downloaded Tcpveiw and netstatp but haven't uploaded them yet because I don't know if I need them or if they're compatable with my system.

The more I learn now the quicker I'll be able to start answering questions as well as asking them. Most of the questions I'll ask here will be security or internet related...but I do like to ask alot of questions.


Thanks !!!