This is particularly true if you have a DSL or cable modem connection (IOW,
a fast one). Your machine could be used in a DDOS attack on a web site.
That's a Distributed Denial Of Service attack, where the hacker puts
programs on a bunch of machines with fast connections and triggers them all
at once to send a flood of messages to the targeted web server.
A lot of junior hackers are what they call "script kiddies" who have no real
abilities other than copying scripts off the hacker sites and newsgroups and
running them. If you shut them out with a good firewall and/or virus
software, most of them have no interest in arguing the point and will go
look elsewhere.
Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Victor Laury
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 7:18 PM
To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: <OT> I was Hacked!
List,
I was under the incorrect assumption that Internet security was only
necessary for large corporations. Well, I know better know. My computer was
acting unusual. New steps in the startup procedures were added, Strange
folders suddenly appeared. Every time I would log off the network, the
"connect to the network" dialog box would pop up. If I was logged on, but
doing nothing, there was still outgoing traffic. I found that a shadow file
of every email that I had read or sent was being created.
I asked the one IT Pro at work that I respect and he told me that "Someone's
having fun" Get a firewall program". I installed Norton Internet Security
and it found 3 trojans installed. Since then, the hacker has been blocked
twenty times, as he, she, it has tried 6 variations of trojans and other
methods to regain his playground.
Hopefully, the hacker didn't find anything to vital and now blocked, will go
away. I've been told that at times they retaliate by certain methods once
blocked. I hope that this does not happen as well. Please install a security
device soon on your machines. There is shenanigans afoot.
Victor
70 SRL 31113136
Los Angeles
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