Is there any log viewing software with gui that actually counts the hits from a IP instead of displaying the message a billion times and have it become a huge log file?

Suppose your being attacked. And normally it would log each attempt a million times. I want it to have

error message IP ADDRESS number of errors

This would make my log file much smaller =/

Perhaps WebTrends?
I know its very customizable and I think you can get it to do what you want...

Somewhere to start anyway..
Take care,
=D ennis Laube

Most of these support what you want:

http://www.mach5.com/products/analyzer/compare.html
http://www.vknoware.com/ala/
http://www.surfstats.com/
http://www.loganalyze.com/
http://www.123loganalyzer.com/
http://www.netstore.de/Supply/http-analyze/
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
http://www.tucows.com/log95.html
http://www.5star-shareware.com/Internet/LogAnalyzers/LogAnalyzers1.html