Firewall log messages

Keep getting heaps of these in the firewall log.



Any idea what is causing them and is there a setting I need to tweek?

Thanks.

 

I guess I didn't give much to go on so a bit more info now:

My rules config is as follows-



Any problems here? I'm a bit nervous about the highlighted one. Hopefully any system generated rules are o/k?

I'm a home user with only the one computer. During setup, I selected strict protection from the options below.



Could this be the problem? or maybe communications with the ADSL modem?

Who was it that said ignorance is bliss

 

FWIW, I'm a single desktop Automatic FW setting/Strict and my log looks like yours starting yesterday morning and into today.

 

I think the log options for troubleshooting are turned on. Check under "IDS and Advanced Options"

 

Ok - unchecking the "Log all blocked connections" has stopped these from being generated. Thanks for the heads-up.

Still wondering what persistent little program is causing them though....

 

Well, IP addresses in the 192.168.x.x range are reserved for local area networks (i.e. you home network) and port 138 is a normal netbios port used for Windows networking. The No Usable Rule Found event log has been discussed here before (click here).

Basically, these entries are normal and can be ignored as they are related to Microsoft Networking.

 

Thanks lych.

Had actally just found that thread too - should have searched the forum earlier. (I did look but just didn't use the search tool properly).