IP flood?

[Eric Brown <ericbrow () ziplip com>]

Hello all,

I've been watching the list for quite a while now, and I've run across a problem where I can't find a solution.

My neighbor got cable internet a few months ago.  He's got a Win98 machine that's running the latest version of Zone 
Alarm.

Two weeks ago, he started getting pings that appeared to be from many different IP's, all within the cable ISP's IP 
range.  He likes to see any kind of hits he gets, so he has Zone Alarm set to pop up a window each time.  The pings are 
not steady.  He might get one in a 10 second window, then a dozen in the next second.

He call tech support, and they changed his dynamic IP to a different one, and this stopped the activity for about an 
hour.  I uninstalled an older version of Zone Alarm, and installed the newest one, and the activity stopped for about 2 
hours.  His Norton's anti-virus is fully updated.  I've run NMap and LANguard network scanner.  With zone alarm on, he 
doesn't show up.  Without zone alarm, no ports other than what you would expect on a Win98 machine (no 31337).  I ran 
grc.com's Shields Up and got nothing.

Can we stop the IP flood?  Can or should the ISP?  Or should he just shut off notification in Zone Alarm so he doesn't 
see the messages.  

Thanks,
Eric Brown


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