[D-NO86]

hello im using zone alarm security suite i have been using it for around 3weeks
i am a bit concerned about the amount of inbound intrusions it has blocked in this time
20762 intrusions and 8 of them high rated, the number is going up by the second,
is this normal or am i being hacked?

any help would be good, thanks

[spacemanben]

This is normal, i used zone alarm and it records everything that comes your way, even the inbounds that dont even know you are there. I wouldn't be worried, the important thing to realise that it stopped them. Most 'attacks' are harmless and wouldn't know you existed if you had only a small amount of protection. Zone alarm has an everything is bad approach to protection, whereas other firewalls screen for known threats in the traffic while staying mostly out of the way. Dont get me wrong, both work, and by far reduce you risk of being attacked.

[lunarlander]

Do you have a router? If you have a router doing NAT for you then you would see less 'intrusions'.

[1002richards]

Hi,
This is in no way a scientific experiment but - I use ZoneAlarm and have done for 2-3 years. As an extra level of protection I do all my surfing (IE & Firefox) through 'Sandboxie' which is a virtual environment. After each session when you close your browser all traces/history are wiped.
http://www.sandboxie.com/
I re-licenced ZoneAlarm 100+ days ago and have had no blocked intrusions.Not scientific but possibly of use to others I hope?

Richard.