From: "Rod Gasson" 


"Bob Lawrence" 
wrote in message
news:1080804171{at}p12.f610.n712.z3.ftn...

>
>  The last time I spoke to Keith Richardson he was monitoring his
> ports while connected to the Net, and was getting a hit every 20
> minutes. That's 72 hits a day when he wasn;t expectign anything, and
> one of those could be crap. Is it paranoid it they're *really* trying
> to get at you?

Err, Bob, I think Keith probably needs better monitoring software. 73 hits a
day is *nothing*.
On average we block anything between 5000-10000 probes a day at our
firewall.
This figure jump dramatically whenever a new virus starts doing the rounds.

Rgds
Rod


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