Some versions of personal firewalls
can give false alerts when streaming media content
is delivered to your computer. These alerts are
not indications of hacks, the packets that cause
these alerts are typical for network traffic from
such streaming servers.
They are, in fact, IP Fragment Overlaps but can be sensed
as UDP port probes.
Some firewall vendors offer help and solutions for this
issue, please contact your vendor for support.
If you believe that your firewall is not triggering false
alerts, then please forward the following information
to [email protected]
· The alert date, time and time zone
· Your firewall software and version number
· Your operating system
· Your internet connection speed.
· The type of alert, as reported by your firewall
· The port number(s) the alert triggered on
· The protocol the alert triggered on (TCP/UDP/ICMP)
· Source and destination IP address
· If possible, a sample packet log
