At the moment l have windows Firewall, Avast AV, Spyware Blaster, and SuperAntiSpyware all running realtime.
I've just manually updated Malawarebytes and it is now giving me realtime protection for a trial period only.
MBAM is now warning me of two ip's from China trying to access the pc (58.218.199.240 and 221.192.199.49).
On the first hand this is great as MBAM is working, but how many "anti" programs does one have to have running before just one of them shows up an ERROR? Certainly slows the SYSTEM down a tad!
Am now reading up on IP addresses to try and understand them.
Is there a free realtime program where l could, say, block all intrusions from addresses at 58.* and 221.*
All the above listed programs may block access, but they do not allow you to add any addresses you want blocked.
Any advice appreciated.
Regards

I'm typing this after accessing your site via one IE session. Now, as we speak, on the taskbar another IE has just opened, flashing orange, and it's from an ad company. Ooops, up has come MBAM again with yet another Chinese IP address, 58.218.199.227 trying to access the system.
Why is all this happening all of a sudden?
I was under the impression that Firewalls can be set to block specific incoming traffic. Although i have never specifically set mine up to do so.

I use COMODO Firewall.Thanks Redd,
You may be right, but if l go into my bulk standard Windows Firewall (advanced section) l can allow exceptions, but can't see anything anywhere about blocking!
So MBAM keeps blocking these 4 incoming Chinese ip addresses from accessing the system, and as well as that, every time l access the Comp Hope site, another session opens up automatically in IE from a French advertiser (well, l am in FRANCE), trying to sell me stuff. I must point out that it is a genuine SELLING site so although not a threat, it's just annoying.
So, l was wondering whether there is a real time program that allows me to block anything carte blanche.
(ie by site name, by a specific ip address, or by a block of ip addresses).
Obviously Windows Firewall doesn't!
Thanks for the help

Windows Firewall doesn't but a third party firewall might.Thanks again Redd,
Have outed Windows Firewall and am trying out PC Tools Firewall.
You can do a lot more with it, but you still can't block ip addresses! It does seem better, but hogs the system a bit!
Anyway, so far, the ad tab in IE hasn't popped up yet, so will see what happens re the ip addresses.
RegardsHello Redd (or anyone else), just an update.
Whether or not it's a coincidence, have traced these "events" to another forum site that l use (a pucker one l might add).
Seems that when l logon there, things start happening. Funny thing is, they were down for about about 4 hrs whilst doing major updates to their database, and these things only started to happen once they were up and running again.
Have therefore pm'd them to see if there is in fact a problem.
PCTools by the way seems pretty *censored* good. It hogs the system because it is testing EVERYTHING that it carries out, but then it asks you to allow/disallow things that are done. You then either allow/disallow, it remembers the answer, and doesn't ask again.
For some strange reason, my system is now thundering along (l'm not complaining!).
Regards