[thenry]

I understand but the icmp attacks if successful can eat up bandwidth. The statement above confirms that and past experience of my service/broadband was cloned before when I wasn't linked to a router. 1 system was linked to the modem directly, the av installed at the time wasn't the best and the firewall was flawed as it was set to allow all in from set connection instead of being set up correctly along with decent av/spyware monitors. The attempts to clone then were sucessful which did have an impact on my bandwidth/bb performance. My modem was then replaced after VM looked into it, I linked it up to a router and ever since I get constant attempts of these smurfs. I've cleaned all my systems with various scanners, nothing found.