\_ I have just got everything up with @home this past weekend. I am so
\_ glad. I check my firewall every night to see what is going on. In
\_ my log file have started to see a pattern to some probes. I seem to
\_ get a lot from Cox at home and Cox at work. 

This is a bit severe, but try:

ipchains -A input -j REJECT -p tcp 24.0.0.0/8 -y -d <your-ip> 0:65535

That'll definitely mask off those annoying cox@ probes.  As well as a
whole host of other folks, but why are they trying to see your box
anyway? :-)

IIRC, some dig'ing found that cox went 24.1 - 24.14 a while back.

David