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  1. Aryeh: it looks like this I don't have Foxtel but it was the best illustration I could find. It is somtimes installed with a Battery Backup Unit, but I rarely experience electric power drop-outs so I chose not to have that. Besides the blue ethernet cable, I have line to a power point and a connection to a UNI-V voice port for my telephone, so that I can make or receive phone calls at any time, even when my computer is switched off.
  2. That's all very interesting, itman, and I think I understand what you are saying. But I'm not in the USA and my ISP did not offer a 'combo router/modem' when they signed me up to the NBN. They are in another state and not in the business of selling or installing up hardware. Also I assume such a device would require its own power point, and I have none to spare anywhere near the computer; I live in a very small flat (apartment) built in the 1970s when one power socket per room was the norm; I'm already using all the spare slots on a powerboard for the NBN device, the printer and heaters. I've discovered that I can set ESET not to send these pop-ups of these threats it is detecting, and just let it go on with its job in the background. Maybe I'll do that. No peteyt, I didn't know that but unless someone tells me otherwise I don't see that upgrading to a more recent version of ESET would make a difference re this particular issue.
  3. Many thanks for checking those numbers for me, TomFace. Chinese hackers sounds far mor potentially malicious than local school kids playing around. But I'm inclined not to report abuse because it would show they are getting through to a real person and that could give them more ammunition in some way. To Hypoonis: ESET is doing a good job of being my personal firewall. I wouldn't know what sort of modem/router would do any better nor would I have any idea how to install it. I'm of the 'if it works, don't fix it' generation and mind-set. To peteyt: when the time goes to renew my ESET subscription I shall no doubt be offered the latest version. But this version updates itself daily if not more often.
  4. To answer Aryeh first: the blue ethernet cable from my Windows XP computer's Ethernet port goes into a socket on a receptacle in the wall similar to a power outlet, supplied and installed by the National Braodband Network here in Melbourne, Australia. TomFace: I found the list of Detected Port Scanning attacks under the Personal Firewall tab - 60 of them between 7 October and 14 December. Several have the same beginning number, e.g. 222.186.138. 64:0000 and 222.186.58.131: 6000 I've tried entereing those into whois.domaintools but it says they are 'malformed'.There are other similar clusters, which I haven't looked up. peteyt: My ESET is v. 9.0.408.0, and no I haven't tried another version. Prefer not to at this stage, as this one seems to be working as it should re these attacks.
  5. Thanks TomFace, that's a useful idea. But all I have is the pop-up alert from ESET each time it happens, and I don't know how I would find the IP address from that.
  6. I've no idea where the attacks are coming from, so I assume they are potentially malicious, and I certainly don't want to make. an excetion for them.
  7. I have ESET Smart Security v.9 home version on a Windows XP computer connected by blue ethernet cable directly to the NBN. I am getting ESET alerts for repeated TCP port scanning attacks. As I understand it, this means that ESET is doing its job correctly in protecting me, but I am increasingly annoyed at these attempted attacks. They are more frequent at weekends and now , in school holidays, happening several times a day, and even within the hour. I was told on a Whirlpool forum not to worry, as it was just "script kiddies" playing around, but I'd love to put a stop to them. Any suggestions? I am not at all computer literate, so simle language, please.
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