attacks on my pc

[richard plummer]

i've had broadband for nearly a year now, but, of late i
have hed a lot of attacks against my pc ( i use norton
firewall )norton reports that most of these attacks are
coming from the same ip address 172.188.64.17.
is this somthing i should be worried about ?
am i being attacked ? or is this a friendly site reported
wrongly ?
if it is an attack can i report it to someone and get
this gateway stop, or the user shut down ?
any help would be apreciated
in advance thank you

[John A. Wolf]

Richard it looks like that IP address belongs to AOL. I can't tell if it is
something you should be worried about or not based on your post this maybe a
friendly program running on your system that is connecting to this address.
If they are probes or something like that coming from the address you could
try e-mailing . However, I have no clue how responsive they
are. Here is a copy of the ARIN report I just pulled:

Search results for: 172.188.64.17

OrgName: America Online
OrgID: AOL
Address: 8619 Westwood Center Drive
Address: Suite 200
City: Vienna
StateProv: VA
PostalCode: 22182
Country: US

NetRange: 172.128.0.0 - 172.191.255.255
CIDR: 172.128.0.0/10
NetName: AOL-172BLK
NetHandle: NET-172-128-0-0-1
Parent: NET-172-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: DAHA-01.NS.AOL.COM
NameServer: DAHA-02.NS.AOL.COM
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 2000-03-24
Updated: 2002-08-09

TechHandle: AOL-NOC-ARIN
TechName: America Online, Inc.
TechPhone: +1-703-265-4670
TechEmail:

OrgAbuseHandle: AOL382-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-703-265-4670
OrgAbuseEmail:

OrgNOCHandle: AOL236-ARIN
OrgNOCName: NOC
OrgNOCPhone: +1-703-265-4670
OrgNOCEmail:

OrgTechHandle: AOL-NOC-ARIN
OrgTechName: America Online, Inc.
OrgTechPhone: +1-703-265-4670
OrgTechEmail:

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2003-06-10 21:05
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

Hope that helps
--
John A. Wolf



"richard plummer" > wrote in message
...
> i've had broadband for nearly a year now, but, of late i
> have hed a lot of attacks against my pc ( i use norton
> firewall )norton reports that most of these attacks are
> coming from the same ip address 172.188.64.17.
> is this somthing i should be worried about ?
> am i being attacked ? or is this a friendly site reported
> wrongly ?
> if it is an attack can i report it to someone and get
> this gateway stop, or the user shut down ?
> any help would be apreciated
> in advance thank you