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  1. #11
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    Why would some one want to hack a home computer... More specificaly YOUR home computer... Wouldnt the hackers be going for the big servers where they can launch a DDoS attack?... Its all too much hype, hackers barely ever hack home computers.... I have had my DSL for about a year and the worst i see is a ICMP ping or a connection to port 80..... LOL Or maybe its just me and my 20 firewalls

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    Good point! What would be the most interesting target?

    Originally posted by ac1dsp3ctrum
    Why would some one want to hack a home computer... More specificaly YOUR home computer... Wouldnt the hackers be going for the big servers where they can launch a DDoS attack?...
    Since Personal Firewalls are more and more intruduced (and even more advanced protection) to home users with a direct connection to the Internet would it be a nice target out of many reasons.

    1. Practise and learn in a safer way (which ISP cares about the homeuser?).
    2. Plant a Trojan or other mailicous programs on the computer, and then use it in a forced attack against another poor victim.
    3. Many users today are working remote to their offices and they would be the perfect target and backdoor into a lots of "secrets and good stuff".

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