what should i do to protect my network from the hacker ?

Hey shadow_dancer, are you running a network, or are you just trying to protect your own computer? Is it a small network, or are you an admin for a business or something? Definently read. Read read read. Im pretty new at all this, but reading is sooooo good to improve you skills. Also, before you get too into it, switch to linux, or some unix based os. Best of luck.

Well you keep asking how to "trace" and find "the exact location". Instead of traceing locations you should let peaple know about your problem so your gonna need the IP then after you get that your gonna need to do some kinda whois search or whatever and have the IP matched to a ISP then e-mail the ISP. Tell them about your problem along with some screen shots. If its a good ISP then they'll know what to do....

And to add to what KidAdmin said: If you like servers you'll love linux. ::smoker::

dear The Specialist.

thanks eh for your advice .. i've told to ISP and there werer no respons .. huh .. hhmmpppfff .. but that's ok .. i will try to read more and more books .. hehehe .. by the way .. thanks for everything mate.

:)
Regard

dear kidadmin,

yeah .. perhaps you are ryt about linux, but for now i just want to learn about windows first and after that i will go to LINUX. will you give me some trick for easier in learning LINUX guys .. in here there are only 3 kinds of LINUX Books ( how to install, what is linux ) but after i read it i can't find the text which containts in networking. and mr kidadmin thanks for your advice i preciate that mate.

regard

Norton firewall (big turn off); anyway if u get the attackers ip adress (by typing netstat in c-prompt and singling out forign adresses). i dont know if it would be the same with a server? anywayz i think you need to catch up on the reading before you even ask that kind of a question ("and pls tell me how to hack something"). Also why dont u read up on common ports, and then u could manually configure which ports should remain closed or open. Norton Firewall (2003-2002) should have a "default" setting (or so im told); dont use it.

thanks for ur reply Sticky, finally i found how to shuttle this problem.
thanks mate.

regard

I would sugest these books:
hacking exposed 3rd and
hacking exposed windows 2000
...
and if you like to know a little about linux security then read:
hacking exposed linux

very good books

dear nasus,

thanks for ur reply, nice sugested guy... i will find those books and try to learn more and more. thanks .

regard