[NEO]

I am tired of so many hackers trying to get into my machine. I used Norton firewall 2003 and it seems to works well. My questions are

1) Is it safer to use 2 firewalls at the same time ? Iis it necessary and will there be any conflict when more than one firewall are running simultaneously?

2) Is there anyway to contact the hacker or counterattact them if i get their IP address? Doesn't mean that i want to hack them back, just want to tell them to back off.

Thanks,
NEO

 

[KJ869]

Tell about it to your ISP -> thye look the logs --> get to the ISP hacker is using --> get him down

 

[blessingx]

When I used to be on the PC, I used Zone Alarm, which gave more info than most firewalls I tried. I even ran it with Black Ice for awhile/ Agree though you should talk to your ISP.

 

[chase]

ok, if the guy was a hacker, a real hacker, your software firewall would do nothing. blackice is actual pure crap. it does nothing. norton/zone alarm can stop basic stuff, but it won't do as well as a hardware firewall. something that physically closes ports is the best. but the ultimate firewall is a properly configured openbsd box. it is damn near impossible to hack. this os has had 1 remote security hole in 6 years of its existence.

and how do you know its a guy trying to hack your box??? it could be a lot of things, unless you know its a personal ip. even so, it could be a zombie looking for open boxes. or it could be boxes or something just pinging you, or many other things.

 

[NEO]

Too bad, my ISP is AOL. There are lots of hacker in AOL already...

 

[imported_maverick_12]

Oh the irony of the screen name neo thinking random scanners are hacking him. hahaha.

 

[lan]

get trinity on the case

 

[dd3mon]

You didn't answer the question as to why you think you're being hacked..

-dd3mon

 

[NEO]

I thought i was hacked since there were ip addresses and trackeed locations (inside USA , from Beijng, Germany..etc). I downloaded songs from Kazaa and not so sure if that allows someone to hack into my system conveniently. I also have some doubt that it might as well just be a program trying to recieve or sent the informations to/from my pc (like some adwares).

 

[imported_maverick_12]

being scanned dosen't mean you were hacked.

 

[fractus2]

Follow the white rabbit.

 

[chadbang]

Quote:

get trinity on the case

 

[Squalish]

Kazaa stores your IP in other nodes, as does all P2P software. When a node recieves a search request, it sends it to spider among its top x number of IPs on the list. When it scans your IP to find out if it can send it to you, I assume that it hits your firewall and stops. You simply need to open whatever port it is.

A good clue to help you out in this situation: Find what port your "hacker" is attempting to open, if it's the same one consistently, at least google 'port ____' to find out if it belongs to an application you use.

 

[xtreme4099]

Watch out for 192.168.0.1 ...that guys a good hacker ...heh

 

[lini]

Quote:

Originally posted by xtreme4099 Watch out for 192.168.0.1 ...that guys a good hacker ...heh

Nice!

Btw, do you know the wonderful 127.0.0.1 t-shirt?

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini