WTF? Mega-slow access, firewall says 8000 blocked

[Rooster_Ties]

What the fuck?? My internet access has been up and down all night (and from what my wife says, today too), and when it's down -- it turns out that it's just really, REALLY slow.

And I just looked at my fire-wall (ZoneAlarm, the free version), and it says it's blocked like 8,000+ intrusions, and the number (8,000) was going up and up by the second -- like I was being attacked as I watched the fire-wall control pannel.

What the hell?? How can I stop this????

HELP!!!!

[street singer]

When's the last time you checked for viruses or scanned for adware/spyware? That's the first thing I would do...

[Rooster_Ties]

Went from close to 8,000 (less than 8,100) all the way up to 8,800 attacks (total), in the space of like 5 minutes.

Nearly zero gifs and/or jpegs are loading when I do finally get a page to come up.

Can't even begin to get something like cnn.com to load. Many pages are just timing out. Can't believe that I was even able to start this thread.

I've tried rebooting dozens of times, and rebooting my cable-modem too, dozens of times too. Sometimes I'll get access back, but even then -- it's still really slow. But most of the time it's mega-slow, like slower than when I used dial-up.

(I'm on Time-Warner's "Roadrunner".)

Why would I be a target for something like this????

4th-attempt to post this...

[Jim Dye]

Your computer could be being used for a denial of service attack.

[Rooster_Ties]

After two hours on the phone with the tech-support people at Time Warner Cable (RoadRunner), and two new cable-modems since Wednesday morning -- I'm now kinda, sorta, half-way back in business.

But I'm not out of the woods yet, and not by a longshot. My access is stull sluggish as all get-out, and my firewall is about half-way hosed. It works, but it's been banged up pretty bad, defending the attacks. (Not my words, that's what the tech-gal said. The fire-wall will shut parts of itself down to prevent certain kinds of attacks.) Not sure if I totally believe that, but I am planning to download a new (different) firewall later tonight.

Got a service-tech coming over in about 4 hours, to double-check the line and all the hardware. Of course the on-site tech can't diagnose firewall issues (probably), so all they'll be able to do is elimiate the possibility (remote, at best), that any of this is line/hardware related.

What a pain in the ass. Half the time pages won't load gifs or jpegs. Some pages load slower than when I had dog-shit-slow dial-up.

What a pain!!!

[couw]

...I am planning to download a new (different) firewall later tonight.

try Kerio

http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

[Use3D]

It works, but it's been banged up pretty bad, defending the attacks.  (Not my words, that's what the tech-gal said.  The fire-wall will shut parts of itself down to prevent certain kinds of attacks.)  Not sure if I totally believe that, but I am planning to download a new (different) firewall later tonight.

Haha, banged up? Okay, I need to get into tech support. I always wanted to make shit up.

And Rooster, if you want to see active connections in windoze goto the command prompt and type netstat /n

make sure no keyloggers or spybots are trying to open ports or listen to internet traffic. Write those ips down from netstat (or clipboard them) and then check them out at www.dnsstuff.com and make sure they're legit.