after giving my system a full scan
and rebooting ,the offending isp
stopped probing my ports ! ...
so it appears that perhaps a cookie
I picked up ,was trying to
communicate back and forth
and was cleaned out.
It's the only
thing that makes sense
considering the events.
ahhhh , another lesson learned ,
in the long long learning curve
of computers and the internet...
[ the honeypot is still on the back burner...