this topic I started because of the "Zone alarm Goin' nuts" topic.
Just wondring if anyone has had a bad experience from getting hacked. with out the faithful Zonealarm running or other less qualified Firewalls.
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this topic I started because of the "Zone alarm Goin' nuts" topic.
Just wondring if anyone has had a bad experience from getting hacked. with out the faithful Zonealarm running or other less qualified Firewalls.
I got BlackICE defender and left my pc on in the Hackers lounge on yahoo! Just to see how many stupid people would try to mess with me and supprisingly it was the same stupid people over and over
Haven't faced such thing yet. Too lazy to deal with them! :)
I get the occasional ping, but most give up once they realise I've got some form of security running - there's bound to be a much easier target if they move on to the next IP address! Now my ISP uses dynamic IPs rather than fixed, things have calmed down quite a lot.
I did get a serious port-scan once, so I started to trace the source (don't ya just love a job that teaches you network security? :)) and once I'd found it and done a couple of pings myself, it suddenly stopped :)
All "hacking" is over-hyped by the media - most people don't have anything worth taking from their PCs (do you store your credit card numbers on yours?!?) and those that have something worth hiding usually have some form of protection, like a personal firewall.
Why would anyone bother going after a home PC anyway? It's the servers that most hackers want as they'll have a much richer amount of information on them.
If they "0wn" a bunch of home machines they can use them for DoS attacks or use the victim "IP" to go through to hack a server.Quote:
Originally posted by antonye:
Why would anyone bother going after a home PC anyway? It's the servers that most hackers want as they'll have a much richer amount of information on them.
I just downloaded Blackice and all I seem to do is go to hacker chat rooms and wait to see if anything happens. It's kind of like buying a gun and then going to the bad side of town to see if you get mugged.
should I worry about hackers when I am on my modem! lol
I don't know much about network security, but the timing of this incident makes me wonder....
I was doing a little online banking when my Norton Firewall went crazy. I didn't think a whole lot about it, but I logged off the secure conection just in case. Then, when I went to look at what I thought was going to be just another FTP probe, I saw a systematic probe of every port on my machine. On top of that, they tried to load 17 unique trojans, each of those multiple times.
What disturbed me most was that the attack started 13 seconds after I crossed into "secure" online banking. Just long enough for someone to see my IP cross into the bank and plug it into thier "hacker toys"....
I did the same thing a previous post said. I started tracing the IP address my firewall gave me and the attacks started again. Having no luck on my end, I decided to disconnect my roaming 56k dial-up before they could find a "loop-hole" in my firewall.
Scary. :eek:
The senario for my question was a person surfing the net with no firewall and getting screwed by something or someone.
Surf the net without a firewall? Huh? Are you insane?
That's right up there with driving without a seatbelt. Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft with no parachute. Bungee jumping without the bungee. Why, that's even as crazy as starting the day off without 64 fluid ounzes of mud-thick coffee! :D
firewall. whatever. I have the lowest security PC on the planet. I have never EEVVVEERRR even installed an anti-virus software son my home pc. why bother. Inever use the damn thing. My wife is on it all day. if she screws it up, she waits for me to fix it. it gives me someting to do when I'm bored. All I use my home PC for is porn. that's it. just porn.
Can someone hack your computer if you are not networked? I read that as long as you have not installed networking the ports stay closed. Mine passed the online security checks and the only downside is typing the password when making connection.
Hmmmm...let's see, your logged IP is..... :DQuote:
Originally posted by Grover:
firewall. whatever. I have the lowest security PC on the planet. I have never EEVVVEERRR even installed an anti-virus software son my home pc. why bother. Inever use the damn thing. My wife is on it all day. if she screws it up, she waits for me to fix it. it gives me someting to do when I'm bored. All I use my home PC for is porn. that's it. just porn.
They ain't gonna 0wn much on my 56K connection! :) :) :)Quote:
Originally posted by TheLow1:
If they "0wn" a bunch of home machines they can use them for DoS attacks or use the victim "IP" to go through to hack a server.
There's crackers, and then there's script kiddies. I SERIOUSLY doubt many true crackers are going to bother with someone's home machine, or even with a small unimportant server. They're gonna go after the big targets, the Pentagon, banks, etc.
Most of what people see are script kiddies who use pre-fab toolz and have minimal if any real skillz. I see people attempting to scan my FTP server all the time. My server is one-way, the folders are either set for download only, no upload, or upload only, no download. And yet I get the occasional clueless script kiddie who uploads a Gigabyte of crap only to discover it's read-protected.