My PC was previousily hacked into successfully in my old apartment. I
recently moved, bought a new computer (has Norton firewall) and now I
have the same intruder on my system. How does one hunt someone down
once they move residence, purchase a new PC, and have a new highspeed
Internet account?
The Pete wrote:
> My PC was previousily hacked into successfully in my old apartment. I
> recently moved, bought a new computer (has Norton firewall) and now I
> have the same intruder on my system. How does one hunt someone down
> once they move residence, purchase a new PC, and have a new highspeed
> Internet account?
By repeating a same mistake. Same misconfiguration, same crack/virus,
same "firewall", same xxx site visited, same "software" run etc. etc. etc.
You are doing something wrong ie. hacking yourself. Ask some friend or
pay somebody who knows much more than you do to check your PC thoroughly
and warn you what are you doing wrong.
On Jul 27, 10:51 pm, "@lf"
> The Pete wrote:
> > My PC was previousily hacked into successfully in my old apartment. I
> > recently moved, bought a new computer (has Norton firewall) and now I
> > have the same intruder on my system. How does one hunt someone down
> > once they move residence, purchase a new PC, and have a new highspeed
> > Internet account?
>
You could also try something like Neo Trace, and there are many
others,
to track the up address if you have it, of the suspected hacker - if
your firewall
provides that info.
At least then you might have an idea if it is a real attempt to hack
in from some remote
location - - you also might an to find a downlaod for sygate firewall
- even though it's no longer
on the market or supported - I still consider it an excellent prog'.
The Pete wrote:
> My PC was previousily hacked into successfully in my old apartment. I
> recently moved, bought a new computer (has Norton firewall) and now I
> have the same intruder on my system. How does one hunt someone down
> once they move residence, purchase a new PC, and have a new highspeed
> Internet account?
>
have a close look at those whom you have given your email address to
"Brody"
news:zw5Ii.200298$fJ5.10070@pd7urf1no...
> The Pete wrote:
>> My PC was previousily hacked into successfully in my old
>> apartment. I
>> recently moved, bought a new computer (has Norton firewall) and
>> now I
>> have the same intruder on my system. How does one hunt someone
>> down
>> once they move residence, purchase a new PC, and have a new
>> highspeed
>> Internet account?
>>
>
> have a close look at those whom you have given your email
> address to
Remove Norton and install a decent virus/malwarescanner.
arja
Brody wrote:
> The Pete wrote:
>> My PC was previousily hacked into successfully in my old apartment. I
>> recently moved, bought a new computer (has Norton firewall) and now I
>> have the same intruder on my system. How does one hunt someone down
>> once they move residence, purchase a new PC, and have a new highspeed
>> Internet account?
>>
>
> have a close look at those whom you have given your email address to
Bear in mind that the attacker might not be among them, but that they
themselves have been compromised. The real attacker might have used
their connection (email messages with the necessary information for
example) to find out about the new location/internet account.
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
>"Brody"
>> The Pete wrote:
[Geez, originally posted on 26 Jul 2007 - digging back into the past
a bit, aren't we? Do you really expect the original poster to still
be reading this group?]
>>> My PC was previousily hacked into successfully in my old
>>> apartment. I recently moved, bought a new computer (has Norton
>>> firewall) and now I have the same intruder on my system. How
>>> does one hunt someone down once they move residence, purchase a
>>> new PC, and have a new highspeed Internet account?
Generally, one doesn't have to. The target can usually be counted on
to install the same mal-ware that brought the intruder in originally.
Did you install the same software, visit the same sites were you are
"allowed" to install the same helper, or plug-ins?
Why do you think the intruder is targeting you specifically? Are you
an important political leader, or are you worth millions of $CURRENCY
who can't secure your computer and people need only connect to it to
obtain thousands in clean cold cash? As of three days ago, there were
2,544,183,372 IPv4 addresses (like the '74.122.111.20' that the O/P
posted from) in the world. That's an enormous haystack to search to
find one tiny needle. On the other hand, if you went back to the
same web/IRC/casino/pr0n/warez site...
>> have a close look at those whom you have given your email
>> address to
I'd suspect this a lot less than the probability that the O/P
installed the same malware and/or used the same handle/nym at the
same Internet sites.
>Remove Norton and install a decent virus/malwarescanner.
No anti-malware application will prevent the individual user from doing
the same dumb things. Contrary to the beliefs of many users, there
really isn't a Malware Fairy who flitters around, waving her magic wand
when you aren't looking, and Hey, Presto - your box is infected _again_
Old guy