Have ?able hacker's IP now what?
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Hello all. New to this so forgive me. This may have been discussed but I searched and didn't come up with anything useful for someone as comp illiterate as I. hehe So I am looking for some hand holding?!
OK I am runnig windows XP, w/ Notron antivirus+internet security which I have set up to notify my of porential attacks. So when allert goes off and logs : You were attacked on, recent intrusion attemts, and most frequent attacker 68.162.31.158 (this one is from today)
Ok it's catching it, But now what? My brother showed me comand promt to "ping " this IP to possibly scare this user that your on to there behavior, but does this really do any good? If you want to trace then, How? What do these numbers mean, and how do you determine where they are coming from or if they are hostile? And so now say you do trace it you get what there ISP? You can report them, how do you do that? With the numbers you get back from the trace? And then what if this person has no idea his/her machine is doing this?
Now let me give you some background, reciently I was supposedly infected with virus, sorry forget name tell you symptoms, I recieved an email form myself. Aparently this virus scans names from contact lists and names from incomming +outgoing email copies itself and sends itself as an attachment, so when you think your getting mail from your buddy, you guessed it!
Anyway my norton didn't find it on my machine , nor did Stinger or FxNetsky. Could my ISP be infected and sending out Email in my name scaning my email? Sorry of topic! Would really just like to know whether to worry or not, And If retaliation isn't the answer what is?
Thank you for your time. Nuke
The dumber people think you are,
The more supprised they'll be when you KILL them!
Re: Have ?able hacker's IP now what?
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Originally posted here by Nuke8771
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Hello all. New to this so forgive me. This may have been discussed but I searched and didn't come up with anything useful for someone as comp illiterate as I. hehe So I am looking for some hand holding?!
OK I am runnig windows XP, w/ Notron antivirus+internet security which I have set up to notify my of porential attacks. So when allert goes off and logs : You were attacked on, recent intrusion attemts, and most frequent attacker 68.162.31.158 (this one is from today
Hey thats my IP address!! ;) j/k Its probably a zombie machine (as Soda_Popinsky) port scanning you or something. Probably another person out on the net without a firewall...