Zone Alarm Alerts Question

[Mark]

I have an apartment with relatively new XP machine on a shared T1
connection. I've always had alerts coming in, occasionally from another
apartment, but it seems that over the past few weeks ZA is showing a
continuous stream of attempts to access SVCHOST.EXE from various other
apartments in the complex. Two dozen different apartment #s in the past 12
hours with some up to a half dozen attempts, for example. The numbers shown
in the log, including my own, don't correspond to the actual apartment
address so I can't follow up directly. ZA is blocking them, but just
curious why I'm just starting to see all these SVCHOST access attempts. Any
ideas of what might be going on here?

 

[Duane Arnold]

I have an apartment with relatively new XP machine on a shared T1
connection. I've always had alerts coming in, occasionally from
another apartment, but it seems that over the past few weeks ZA is
showing a continuous stream of attempts to access SVCHOST.EXE from
various other apartments in the complex. Two dozen different
apartment #s in the past 12 hours with some up to a half dozen
attempts, for example. The numbers shown in the log, including my
own, don't correspond to the actual apartment address so I can't
follow up directly. ZA is blocking them, but just curious why I'm
just starting to see all these SVCHOST access attempts. Any ideas of
what might be going on here?

Put the machine behind a $20 NAT router and ZA will not react at all.

Duane

 

[Simon Pleasants]

I have an apartment with relatively new XP machine on a shared T1
connection. I've always had alerts coming in, occasionally from another
apartment, but it seems that over the past few weeks ZA is showing a
continuous stream of attempts to access SVCHOST.EXE from various other
apartments in the complex. Two dozen different apartment #s in the past 12
hours with some up to a half dozen attempts, for example. The numbers shown
in the log, including my own, don't correspond to the actual apartment
address so I can't follow up directly. ZA is blocking them, but just
curious why I'm just starting to see all these SVCHOST access attempts. Any
ideas of what might be going on here?

I am frequently getting requests from SVCHOST.EXE to access the local
network and / or the internet. It has only recently started doing so.

I always say no, and I am contemplating telling ZA not to even bother
asking. I've am unaware of any restrictions I have placed on myself
by my refusal and I wondering why it is so keen to get out onto the
internet (Adaware has found no spyware and Norton has found no
viruses).