I'm using ZoneAlarm for my firewall protection. It's free for personal
use, but illegal to use the free version for businesses. If you go to
their website at www.zonealarm.com, on the far left side of the home page
you'll see a link to download the software. There's also ZoneAlarm Pro
which you have to pay for. I don't know what the advantage is. All my
friends and I use the free version and have been very impressed with the
results.
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:13:56 -0800 "Gordon Glasgow" <glasgow@serv.net>
writes:
> 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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