HydraHeaded

I have a Huawei SmartAX MT882 modem. I changed the mode of the modem today, so that while earlier when I switched on the modem, it would automatically connect to the net, now I have to manually type in the username and password in windows.

I did this just today, and now I am facing a lot of hack attempts: ZoneAlarm keeps giving messages of having blocked access attempts from different IPs:

193.138.232.17
118.168.135.86
222.216.28.168
10.10.49.220
213.234.219.11
122.116.17.131
218.165.128.76
61.92.52.107
59.95.14.154
59.95.128.161
77.122.203.46
122.116.112.163
61.92.52.107
122.116.17.131
59.95.14.154
118.167.130.5
122.116.17.131
59.95.129.183

Most of these are from somewhere in Taiwan / China / Hong Kong...

I dont have any enemies there; I don't have any enemies anywhere, if I remember correctly )

1st: Does this have anything to do with my changing the modem mode?

2nd: When the IP is shown as of a particular country, does it really mean that it is someone from that country who is trying to hack? Is it possible that someone from Algeria, etc is using a software that makes it looks as if he / she is in Taiwan? Bcoz there are softwares that change your IP, so that it looks as if you are accessing the net from France or Malaysia. I am not sure if these softwares really do what they claim to do, because I once used a software, and then when I googled for my IP, most sites fell in for the trick and showed that I was in some other country, but one or two sites showed two IPs: one was my real IP, and the other was the fake one, shown as a proxy IP. Does anyone know of any working software that will hide the IP, and more importantly, is there any real need for this?