firewall getting bombarded

Are these pop-ups coming from the firewall application itself? If so it just means that it's something new to the firewall. Once you tell it to block them you won't see the popups again.

If the pop-ups aren't from your firewall app then your firewall isn't blocking them at all and umm.. knowing your setup I'd guess one of your neighbors is using your wireless network. Not that someone like me would send pop-ups to someone after hacking their wireless network of course.

Might be the sasser worm with infected puters probin' your ports.

It's the firewall that's sending the queries (allow or disallow?). It stopped now. It was just aweird few minutes. Constant popping up.

Thanks guys.

Unless you are sure that a connection request is the legitimate one from your intended program, you should decline the connection through a new port.
You should select the highest security level of the firewall you have, for the moment at least.

I've been saying no to everything. I ran a virus scan, it came up negative.

I'm also having slow-loading pages. The window pops up for a new page and then it takes forever to load the actual info. Meanwhile I can erase the old page, under the new window, by moving the new window over it. A2K seems to be immune to this problem.