Just some curiosity questions. :)

[PeaceKilla]

Okay, so I got Outpost firewall a few days ago. Every few minutes, in the attack detection plug-in section, it detects "Connection requests" from an enormous variety of IP addresses.
I got a nifty program a while back called NeoTrace, just to fool around with cause it was kinda cool... I used it to trace some of the IP addresses, and found a few from Germany, one from Spain, another from Korea.
Most are "whois" somethingorother network server thingamajiggers or something, it doesn't trace right to the registrant ever, just the network.

Just curious on what all that means and stuff... and if I could find a way to stop them.. its real annoying. X.x

 

[Swilo]

It means ISPs are scanning your domain for active users and logging them. You can't stop them from alerting the firewall, even though they're completely harmless.
That's one of the reasons I don't use a firewall.

 

[Kittie_Killer]

Originally posted by PeaceKilla
Okay, so I got Outpost firewall a few days ago. Every few minutes, in the attack detection plug-in section, it detects "Connection requests" from an enormous variety of IP addresses.
I got a nifty program a while back called NeoTrace, just to fool around with cause it was kinda cool... I used it to trace some of the IP addresses, and found a few from Germany, one from Spain, another from Korea.
Most are "whois" somethingorother network server thingamajiggers or something, it doesn't trace right to the registrant ever, just the network.

Just curious on what all that means and stuff... and if I could find a way to stop them.. its real annoying. X.x

which ports are they trying to gain access thru ?