I would like to thank this group for your quick replies to my question about the DCOM Exploit. I didn't understand a whole lot of it except that it was someone TRYING to get in as opposed to having GOTTEN in, am I right? I have only one problem with the warning message....it just slides up and down too fast to record the numbers properly. It should STAY up til you click it, but when I mean I was being bombarded, I'm talking the whole day every 10 to 30 seconds I would get a new warning....sometimes they woulld number up 3 or 4 URL's high. I have a program called Slap which allows me to view the name belonging to the URL I managed to get 3 of them
Sudbury HSE ppp.398039.sympatico.ca
Quebec HSE ppp.215991qc.sypatico.ca
Kingston HSE ppp.3995655.sympatico.ca
I don't know what all that means but I sent a message to my ISP (Sympatico) and reported this as well, including these names, hoping they can do something with them. And, yes, I had to turn on my firewall, which is really a pain and sad that we can't enjoy ourselves without someone always trying to screw things up!! :'( But I gotta tell you, Avast is the BEST AV there is...I dumped useless Norton's and all it's bloat for this one and am spreading the word in all the groups I belong to.
Thanks again
Lise