B
Bill
Hi all,
I am running home network behind broadband DSL router,
and a few days back I post a question on the security
newsgroup about syn flooding problem and got some advice
about installing Antivirus and Firewall software on my
computer. Now I 've got the trial version of Norton
antivirus and Kerio firewall (recommend by an MVP on the
security newsgroup). The virus scan found nothing positve
about adware or trojan horse or anything else on my
machine. The problem I always have is that whenever I
access Microsof Website for a while the SYN Flood log will
appear on my broadband router's security log. This happen
at the same time when I get no response back from the page
I request from Microsft Website. I check the Firewall
monitor and saw that there are quite a few connection made
by IE to TCP and UDP ports on Microsft Site. I normally
surf only a handful of site on the Internet using my second
partition of WIndows 2K (not the one I use for my work).
This installation have all the latest patch for Win2K and
IE6 installed.The problem of unable to get the response
back from Microsoft Website will last for a short while and
then I can access it again. It does not seem to happen with
other Website but may be because I surf Microsoft site more
than others. This problem does not happen when I try it on
my Redhat Linux installation using Mozilla (at the moment I
am writing this message using Mozilla). Could it be
possible that this problem is related to IE 6 or with
security setting of syn flood protection on my broadband
router. I can't remember that I have this problem when I
was using IE 5.5, if this is to be the case How would I
get back to IE 5.5. I also don't want to reinstall my
Win2k. Could anyone provide a good suggestion on what to do
and possibly explaine what may have cause such a problem?
As this will be greatly aprrecited.
Regards,
I am running home network behind broadband DSL router,
and a few days back I post a question on the security
newsgroup about syn flooding problem and got some advice
about installing Antivirus and Firewall software on my
computer. Now I 've got the trial version of Norton
antivirus and Kerio firewall (recommend by an MVP on the
security newsgroup). The virus scan found nothing positve
about adware or trojan horse or anything else on my
machine. The problem I always have is that whenever I
access Microsof Website for a while the SYN Flood log will
appear on my broadband router's security log. This happen
at the same time when I get no response back from the page
I request from Microsft Website. I check the Firewall
monitor and saw that there are quite a few connection made
by IE to TCP and UDP ports on Microsft Site. I normally
surf only a handful of site on the Internet using my second
partition of WIndows 2K (not the one I use for my work).
This installation have all the latest patch for Win2K and
IE6 installed.The problem of unable to get the response
back from Microsoft Website will last for a short while and
then I can access it again. It does not seem to happen with
other Website but may be because I surf Microsoft site more
than others. This problem does not happen when I try it on
my Redhat Linux installation using Mozilla (at the moment I
am writing this message using Mozilla). Could it be
possible that this problem is related to IE 6 or with
security setting of syn flood protection on my broadband
router. I can't remember that I have this problem when I
was using IE 5.5, if this is to be the case How would I
get back to IE 5.5. I also don't want to reinstall my
Win2k. Could anyone provide a good suggestion on what to do
and possibly explaine what may have cause such a problem?
As this will be greatly aprrecited.
Regards,