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Thanks for all of your great advice! Set up zone alarm last night, and allowed permissions to the programs I wanted to use the connection, and now I’m waiting for the offending party (program), to trigger a warning. You guys are right on the ping activity. I had no idea that so many addresses were trying to hit the computer. Within 3 minutes of having the wall up and the connection on, I had over 75 different intrusion attempts, and finally turned off that notification. Between Avast!, Zone Alarm, Adaware, and Spyware Blaster - I think the system is now safe and locked down.
I appreciate all of your help. 8)