4Midge: I must say that I have been getting a lot of them myself. The other day, I counted roughly 13 attempts. I just made sure that the traffic was dropped by the firewall. I asked the same type of question here on AO. I haven't been able to contact the ISP who owns the IP addresses as of yet, but I plan to. Good suggestion on the Sam Spade site. I downloaded the program and I like it.