On 5 Sep 2005 at 5:17, Bob Weis wrote:

> Every time I connect to the Internet, either through Internet Explorer
> or Outlook Express, Norton's Personal Firewall--Part of Norton System
> Works says it has blocked an attempt to access the Internet.
>
> It says it is 255.255.255.255 and is an Invalid Source IP Address, I
> couldn't find any thing on Symantec's website. I did a web search and
> it says it is a broadcast address; I took from the info from this
> search it is for computers on a network, which mine isn't.
>
> I have run Norton Anti-Virus, Spybot, Lavasoft's Ad-Aware and have not
> found anything. I'm running Windows 2000. I don't see anything in
> Windows Task Manager. How do I get rid of this?

  255.255.255.255 is a valid *destination* address on a local network.  It's
not a vlid *source* address, and Norton is right to block packets which
claim it as their source.
  It might be helpful if you can tell us what Norton says the destination of
the blocked attempt is.

  There *may* be something in the configuration of your router or modem
which is producing this traffic.  Can you provide more detail about the
equipment that connects you to the Internet?

David Gillett

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