Having ventured into broadband ahve turned up my Firewall security and getting loads of wierd stuuf that Zonealarm is blocking, what is this? is it someone? or is it a machine thing?.

 

Also are there any sites or methods for tracing the author of this attacks?

 

 

Jeff TT

A lot of the stuff could just be echos. Ie people sending information like internet pages or even requesting an internet page and the data is sent to you by accident. There are no worries for that.

 

Thinks like Trojansub7 probes are a little more dangerous, but the fact that Zonealarm saw it, means it stopped it. This is a trojan horse file, (A bit like the myth of the trojan horse. You think you have downloaded a useful file when infact when its on your computer it starts to let people in on your computer.) and if you dont have the trojan on your computer again you are safe. A good upto date virus checker will find the trojans.

 

You can find out what thier IP is, it should tell you when that so called "attack" is detected. Use the IP address an look it up on the whois website. It wont tell you the name and address of the person whos "attacking you" but it will tell you the persons internet provider. If you keep having problems email them and let them sort it.

 

Stuart

basically what i did using Tinyfirewall was if i knew someone was sending me something or it happens when i click something then i allowed it, if not block it. i dont use any now tho, cos me router got a built in firewall.

I used BlackIce Defender because it shows the so called attacks and grades them green, yellow, orange and red. The red ones are serious attacks where if undetected had a good chance to cause menice, these are acutally attempts to access restricted stuff on your computer by getting in through closed or used ports.

Orange are probes which are data just scanning for vunerable computers. This is not really an attempt to try and hack your computer. What it is doing is checking out 1 or 2 ways of accessing your computer, when its tried and failed the scan moves on to another computer. These people I would not really class as hackers, becuase they need a trojan horse to be installed on your computer. I had one on my computer because I wanted to look at it which meant I was open to attacks. The things that kept happening where computer locked out and computer turned off, which was what you could do with that particular trojan. These are not hackers they are just pain in the arse kids.

Yellow, are things like wrong information being sent to you. It could hid a hack but is most probably a website some one is loading and some of the data was sent to you by accident, computer error.

Green attacks are information and most of them are accidental too. Things like PCAnywhere request, which is a program that allows you to access and control your computer over the internet. The PCAnywhere access so called "Hack" is just a signal asking the computer if it has PCAnywhere. Most probably some one wanting to access thier own computer but typed in the wrong IP address.

 

 

Dont worry about internet hacks. When I first got broadband I was obsessed with people trying to hack and I reported every one who tried to access my computer, be it accident, error or attempt to hack but I couldnt keep up becuase there where hundreds a day and it increased as users increased. Now I only report IP numbers of people who keep trying over and over and of major attempts at hacking. Even the people who try over and over may be mistakes. Their mate has an IP and they are trying to connect and play a game but the night before the IP's got changed and you got one of thier IP's and they are trying to access your computer to play a game still thinking its his/her mates.

 

 

Dont be too worried about it though.

 

Stuart