# Firewall problems

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firewall-problems/96339>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 8, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firewall-problems/96339 "2003-12-08T02:44:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![kikon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@kikon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kikon)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firewall-problems/96339/1 "2003-12-08T02:44:44Z")

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I just upgraded my computer (finally) to windows xp. No every 30 seconds I get alerts from my firewall that people are trying to access my computer. What the heck is going on? I do have a virus scanner and spybot destroyer so my harddrive is supposedly clean. I’ve never had this problem before, and I had the same firewall as before also.

Has anyone else had this problem?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firewall-problems/96339/2 "2003-12-13T20:39:40Z")

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When I was running a sygate firewall, I would get random warnings that some service I had never heard of was trying to access the web or that something was trying to access me. I changed to ZoneAlarm recently and haven’t seen any of those. I think its the firewall just looking for different things. Windows XP has alot of behind the scenes networking protocols and if your running a router that will send/recieve things to your computer. I don’t know alot about XP or networking, but I think its the firewall reacting to things differently.