Maybe, Im not sure. I logged on to the internet, and after about five minutes, I recieved 12 alerts from my firewall. They all came from the same ip, different ports. I downloaded neotrace, trace him, and got an e-mail address. As soon as I traced him, he disconnected. I sent an e-mail, along with the alert data.

it was interesting.

Were you harassing someone at the time? Irc? ICQ? Are you in a university?

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Manu Narayan

I was at home(dial up). And someone suggested that the red code virus was spreading that night. Im not sure what really was going on. But I e-mailed and have not gotten a response, I guess it was nothing important.

I'm assuming its a software firewall. If he had a real firewall, he wouldn't even see those messages as the firewall would just bounce them off.

More info please.

What firewall are you using?

zonelabs firewall. It blocked and reported them.

He was just portscanning you, which is quasi-legal but usually a prologue to an attempt at hacking. I wouldn't worry too much about it; people mostly don't care about computers running dialups because they're almost useless for DOS attacks. Just block his IP though and you'll be fine. People portscan all the time.