McAfee SecurityCenter has a personal firewall with a trace command that records the location of the source computer on the internet and displays a map with the most probable route taken from the source computer to my computer. It also displays the network information for the source computer and usually the registrant of the source computer. I think it records the IP address of the source computer and then works back through the internet to that IP address and shows you the most probable route. Here's the source of an attempted attack from this afternoon at 1:02 PM PST:
descr: CHINA RAILWAY TELECOMMUNICATIONS CENTER
descr: 22F Yuetan Mansion, Xicheng District, Beijing, P.R.China
In this case, the source computer attempted an unsolicited connection to UDP port 1027 on my computer. The Chinese are probing the internet very actively these days.
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11/05/2005 1:38:26 PM PST by
defenderSD
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