Hello all, I was wondering if someone could recommend software for monitoring malicious attempts to connect to my computer. I'm actually more interested in identifying and logging attacks that I think would be considered denial of service attacks, rather than just port scans. I play some online computer games, and it is not that ususual to find myself crashed out of a game with my computer needing a reboot to recover. The circumstances of when these incidents occur makes me suspect that someone I was connected to enjoys causing people grief more so than playing the game. In any case, I am interested in somekind of monitoring software that would give me some evidence of something like this happening, rather than my just suspecting that this was the case. I have an ADSL connection that passes through a Linksys router. The router has some logging capacity, but it seems pretty limited, simply listing the IP address and the port number (TCP presumably) for incoming and outgoing connections made. I was thinking that I could run the monitoring software on a second computer hooked up to the router. I could even place this computer outside of the router's "firewall", though I don't know if that is necessary for what I'm interested in. Perhaps it will be necessary to have a computer placed out from behind the router ("DMZ setting"), in order to log the attack, if it is basically taking down the router, first, and only indirectly taking my computer with it. I'm running Win 98 SE, which limits the tools that are available. I know this is a complex subject matter and I am probably entering waters that are over my head, but I would appreciate any and all information on this topic. TIA, John The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com