twilight zone

[Susan Kline]

You know, my cable modem activity light gets frenetic a lot of the time,
too, even when I have no software open which should be using it.

Geeks all, is this normal? What's happening?

I need a firewall! Any current information on which one I should try?
And will a firewall keep some hacker from getting into personal data
when I post to a message board? Someone did, recently. Very unsettling,
for sure!

I turn off the cable modem when I'm not actively using it.

 From the very time I started reading pianotech, I've noticed that my
posts are delayed getting back to me. Often someone has answered before
my own posts arrive in the In Box.

Certain people's posts tend to show up in duplicate, but not very many
people or very often. Used to be more, I think.

All these little electrons! Sneaky little critters, fast as lightning,
will go anywhere, do anything, whether or not you want them to ...

Susan


At 09:04 PM 08/08/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Weirdness.
>
>All day today, I've been getting multiple repeat messages, replies to
>messages that still haven't showed up in my In box, and the usual alien
>stuff that doesn't seem to relate to anything at all. Meanwhile, my cable
>modem access light has been flashing continually all week, and access speed
>has slowed dramatically. My firewall has been in security breach heaven all
>week too, reporting near infinite but hopefully ineffectual port probes of
>my IP. Code Red II is apparently responsible for most of the bandwidth
>clog, but I'm taking a poll to see if the pianotech haunting is at the
>source server or at my end.
>
>Where's a good Internet worm backtracer and eradicator (with extreme
>prejudice) when you need one?