hi, i wanted to know... i have pulled up a norton personal firewall ... now the deal is that it is showin me that a blaster is active on the network! but the funny part is ... it shows my ip as the intruder and some ips of the same ISP provider.........for eg if my ip is 101.123.111.1... it will show it as the intruder and under attacked ip it shows 101.123.111.23-69-74 etc.

i believe it is the ms blast screwin up somwhere....can anyone help i have already installed the windows patch and cheked with the norton msblast pathcer .. no sign of it on my puter....help me....

another funny thing is my norton firewall and 2004 donot execute..... the just auto run if i manually execute it.... it swithces off!

Let me first say that it would be very normal to recieve intrusion attempts from other addresses in your ISP's block. This is all part of the internet background noise. And yes, some of that could be Blaster or other worms.

The "attack" on yourself was more than likely your computer's attempt to use a NetBIOS port to connect to another computer; one possible explanation for the alert is your computer is attempting to renew an IP address from a DHCP server.

The good news is that all of that which you speak was blocked. I think you are probably just fine and I'm guessing you are new to firewalls? Just don't grant any program internet access unless you know the program and why it needs access. Your mail client, IE, antivirus programs, GHP, etc do need access. I won't grant server rights to any program unless it is absolutely needed for your computer to function the way you want.

I hope this helps.

well put