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HELP: I THINK I'M BEING HACKED!

Nocturnal

Lifer
Jan 8, 2002
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I just installed Zone Alarm because my connection has been at a stand still for a while now. It feels as if I'm being packeted. And what do you know? After installing Zone Alarm there have been more than 90 blocked intrusions!

What can I do?

Is it normal for my cable modem light to ALWAYS be blinking? Even when the computer is off? Please help!
 

iamme

Lifer
Jul 21, 2001
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if Zone Alarm blocked them, it should be ok, right?

make sure you've updated all of Windows' critical updates/patches and update your Antivirus defs.

btw, my cable modem lights always blink...even when my PC is off.
 

DaveSimmons

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Aug 12, 2001
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Buying that $25 netgear router box from Amazon would help, the box would process and discard the worm connection attempts before they reach your PC.
 

Kadarin

Lifer
Nov 23, 2001
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Sounds like you're already doing what you can do. Look at the traffic that ZA is blocking and see what port(s) it is going after, and make sure you have unneeded services turned off. A NAT box would be a good idea.. Look at outbound traffic as well to verify that you don't have a backdoor installed, and do a virus scan and AdAware scan while you're at it.
 

OverVolt

Lifer
Aug 31, 2002
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Yep my modems been flashing contantly for the past 5days because of that stupid worm. Slowing down my downloads :(!
 

Richdog

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Feb 10, 2003
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Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
damn n00bs

NOBODY WANTS TO HACK YOU

YOU ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT


DAMN D|CK

NOBODY WANTS YOUR THREADCRAPPING

YOU ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT
 

fs5

Lifer
Jun 10, 2000
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Originally posted by: Richdog
Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
damn n00bs

NOBODY WANTS TO HACK YOU

YOU ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT


DAMN D|CK

NOBODY WANTS YOUR THREADCRAPPING

YOU ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT

wow richdog, I sense a lot of anger from you. I mean just look at that sig!

 

Miramonti

Lifer
Aug 26, 2000
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Originally posted by: Ophir
Buy a router.

I have an smc barracade router and its unbelievable how much garbage I get on my firewall logs. They are useless as firewalls.
 

BeauJangles

Lifer
Aug 26, 2001
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Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
damn n00bs

NOBODY WANTS TO HACK YOU

YOU ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT

Yup. "Intrusion attempts" just mean that someone was probably scanning your computer, which is nothing to be concerned about. When people go about hacking, they scan millions of IPs. Yours is just one. No worries, uninstall Zone Alarm, it's annoying and it's crap.
 

Richdog

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Feb 10, 2003
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Originally posted by: fivespeed5
Originally posted by: Richdog
Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
damn n00bs

NOBODY WANTS TO HACK YOU

YOU ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT


DAMN D|CK

NOBODY WANTS YOUR THREADCRAPPING

YOU ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT

wow richdog, I sense a lot of anger from you. I mean just look at that sig!


lol your spider sense must be faulty then, because im hardly ever angry, and my sig is all in good humour. Try the psychotherapy on someone else please...

:D:beer:
 

RVN

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Dec 1, 2000
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"Casing" an open port is not the same as casing somebody's house ...you don't know what you got until you get in. BTW, where do you live and what's your IP?