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Hackers in my machine? How dare they...
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| scottic2 2003-10-17, 6:54 pm |
| On my PC, if I do a netstat -a, I see TCP and UDP ports on my machine connected to strange IP addesses. My Internet Explorer window is not up, Nothing that is running in the background should (hah hah) be accessing the Internet, so theoretically, there should be no ports connected to any other Internet Hosts. Right??? If I go in and look, grab the IP address, and NeoTrace it, it comes back with no info, like it is not a company, but a private individual. Are my assumptions correct, or am I just giving myself the heebie-jeebies for nothing? | |
| maxmax79 2003-10-17, 7:23 pm |
| Are you running any type of firewall? I would close shut down all ports but 80 & 443 and then all the extra activity should stop. Then I would run a scan for trojans. | |
| ruscorp 2003-10-17, 8:56 pm |
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Originally posted by scottic2
On my PC, if I do a netstat -a, I see TCP and UDP ports on my machine connected to strange IP addesses. My Internet Explorer window is not up, Nothing that is running in the background should (hah hah) be accessing the Internet, so theoretically, there should be no ports connected to any other Internet Hosts. Right??? If I go in and look, grab the IP address, and NeoTrace it, it comes back with no info, like it is not a company, but a private individual. Are my assumptions correct, or am I just giving myself the heebie-jeebies for nothing?
Alright, alright! I'll stop hacking!  | |
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Originally posted by ruscorp
Alright, alright! I'll stop hacking!
and I thought you were going to give him personal advice in how to deal with getting hacked...
sniff | |
| ruscorp 2003-10-17, 9:27 pm |
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Originally posted by mikop
and I thought you were going to give him personal advice in how to deal with getting hacked...
sniff
and I thought some intelligent remark would be said plus advice on how to deal with getting hacked...
hax0r | |
| Boulware5 2003-10-17, 9:56 pm |
| ruscorp is such a l33t hax0r | |
| ruscorp 2003-10-17, 10:00 pm |
| That I am. | |
| scottic2 2003-10-17, 11:50 pm |
| I am running Zone Alarm... and as far as I know, there isn't an option to block specific ports. Can anyone recommend a decent hardware firewall? Checkpoint, maybe??? | |
| Boulware5 2003-10-17, 11:52 pm |
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Originally posted by scottic2
I am running Zone Alarm... and as far as I know, there isn't an option to block specific ports. Can anyone recommend a decent hardware firewall? Checkpoint, maybe???
Checkpoint is software and very expensive - it's really for businesses. Just get a NAT router...Netgear, D-Link, etc. | |
| scottic2 2003-10-18, 12:02 am |
| I just filtered out all ports except HTTP and HTTPS, and now all activity has ceased. I will now scan for Trojans, thanks! | |
| ruscorp 2003-10-18, 3:29 pm |
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Originally posted by Boulware5
Just get a NAT router...Netgear, D-Link, etc.
Try Linksys too. | |
| Papiya 2003-10-20, 7:44 am |
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Originally posted by scottic2
I just filtered out all ports except HTTP and HTTPS, and now all activity has ceased. I will now scan for Trojans, thanks!
If you have been hacked you should reinstall. You never know what utilities may have been replaced with lookalikes. |
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