One possibility is that your Profile is corrupted, that would explain some of this behavior. I am seeing this happen more and more often on XP and 2K systems. You could do a Google Groups search on the terms Profile corrupt XP, etc.
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Well, I just logged into my own SonicWall, and I sure don't see anywhere to turn off alerts in the log for *that* specific problem. In fact, I don't see any of the check boxes that would keep an alert from going out regarding IP Spoofing. So it is apparent to me that the SonicWall notices that...
Further info: While I have not physically made it back over to the physical location of the 2 different SonicWall's that are sending me these IP Spoof reports from the internal network, I did find this link. It pretty definitively points out that the AOL software creates a "virtual"...
Many thanks to thegavster and bcastner. I am actually suspecting that it's the AOL thing at this point, since both of my clients use AOL. I may have one of the households not use AOL for, say, 24 hours, and see if the IP spoof messages stop, as I suspect that they will.
Thanks!
Forgot to mention that I already updated and ran Spybot S&D (though I notice that *today* they came out with new includes, and the number of files it's looking for jumped by almost a thousand. I'll have to go back over there and run it again. But anyway, nothing found on the first look...
I have two SonicWall Soho 3's installed at 2 homes in the same geographical area. Both are on the same broadband provider system. About 4 weeks ago, I started receiving email alerts from the SonicWall, from BOTH firewalls. Here is an example:
08/21/2003 15:21:56.912 - IP spoof detected -...
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Have you added yourself (your username and password) as a User on the Windows 2000 machine? If not, that would cause the problem you described......
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