My firewall has identified a hacker attacker and has given me his (her) IP address. My question is now that I have this info, what do I do? Is there a way to identify this person through the IP address? Who do I report this to? How do I send this guy a Trojan Horse? j/k

 

Find where he lives and beat his ass down. If you wanna get dicky about it, you can easily go to the cops. But why not just let it slide? I'm sure it was just practice. If the shit happens again. Then do whatever you want. IMO

 

What firewall are you using? Blackice? If so it (and some other firewalls) allow you to "Close the door" on them... forever if you want.

DO NOT send a trojan! What are you thinking? Many of these "attacks" BTW are not really attacks.

Bottom line is:
- send a Trojan - he/she won't be tricked into opening and sets you up as a bad guy even if the "attack" wasn't an attack.
- beat his ass down - could be fun but might also land you in a world of heck.
- be a smart person and firewall like crazy - HEY you're already doing this... you must be a smart person.

JD

 

BlackIce Defender has been recently discovered to have a serious buffer overflow vulnerability...

"All current versions of BlackICE Defender and BlackICE Agent running on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP are vulnerable to the attack."

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0...2D15318,00.html


And I had to include this one just for a laugh....

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0...5E15306,00.html

 

I wouldn't worry about it. People have programs running pings all the time.

 

Anything Microsoft that's exposed to the internet is vulnerable. Even their internet products (IIS, Proxy, etc.) are a farce. Why don't you find an old Pentium box and load Red Hat with 2 NIC's and set it up as a router... no more worries once you're done.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by derryck
[B]Anything Microsoft that's exposed to the internet is vulnerable.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by integrate
[B]

I just setup a router at my house.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by DaveZ
[B]

I wouldn't count on the router alone.