Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer?

[Sara Brigid Gaffney <irishelf () bellsouth net>]

I had my packet sniffer running on this solitary Windows PC but I
wasn't on the net.  Suddenly I noticed I was getting hit multiple
times a second.  They were coming from a range of sources but
targeted one port, 6346.

I set my personal firewall to deny both UDP/TCP in both directions.
That didn't stop the probing nor did I get the usual alert from my
firewall???   I ran several of the IP addresses through my NeoTrace.
They came from mostly Australia, California, Washington and Canada.
Some had references such as home.net and pacbell; others indicated no
information available as to IP name, contact.

Everyone I checked indicated header length of 20 and data length of
48.  This went on for maybe an hour while I tried to figure what was
happening.  I ended up closing my connection and then re-booting the
PC.  I haven't had another incident since (30 minutes ago).

Does anyone have the faintest idea what could be going on here?  I
had scanned with my Ad-a-ware - this wasn't from any kind of spyware.

Sorry, I'm fairly new to this packet sniffing so I'm not sure what
info you need or if this question is acceptable for this list.   For
all I know, this is not unusual, still it seems weird. This computer
is not located at a business address.  I'm a writer.  I've been
hacked before, etc.

Thanks much for any help.


Sara
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"One must still have chaos in oneself, to give birth to a dancing star."  Nietzsche




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