My PC was previousily hacked into successfully in my old apartment. I recently moved, bought a new computer (has Norton firewall) and now I have the same intruder on my system. How does one hunt someone down once they move residence, purchase a new PC, and have a new highspeed Internet account?
By repeating a same mistake. Same misconfiguration, same crack/virus, same "firewall", same xxx site visited, same "software" run etc. etc. etc.
You are doing something wrong ie. hacking yourself. Ask some friend or pay somebody who knows much more than you do to check your PC thoroughly and warn you what are you doing wrong.
You could also try something like Neo Trace, and there are many others, to track the up address if you have it, of the suspected hacker - if your firewall provides that info. At least then you might have an idea if it is a real attempt to hack in from some remote location - - you also might an to find a downlaod for sygate firewall
- even though it's no longer on the market or supported - I still consider it an excellent prog'.
have a close look at those whom you have given your email address to
Remove Norton and install a decent virus/malwarescanner.
arja
Bear in mind that the attacker might not be among them, but that they themselves have been compromised. The real attacker might have used their connection (email messages with the necessary information for example) to find out about the new location/internet account.
[Geez, originally posted on 26 Jul 2007 - digging back into the past a bit, aren't we? Do you really expect the original poster to still be reading this group?]
Generally, one doesn't have to. The target can usually be counted on to install the same mal-ware that brought the intruder in originally. Did you install the same software, visit the same sites were you are "allowed" to install the same helper, or plug-ins?
Why do you think the intruder is targeting you specifically? Are you an important political leader, or are you worth millions of $CURRENCY who can't secure your computer and people need only connect to it to obtain thousands in clean cold cash? As of three days ago, there were
2,544,183,372 IPv4 addresses (like the '74.122.111.20' that the O/P posted from) in the world. That's an enormous haystack to search to find one tiny needle. On the other hand, if you went back to the same web/IRC/casino/pr0n/warez site...I'd suspect this a lot less than the probability that the O/P installed the same malware and/or used the same handle/nym at the same Internet sites.
No anti-malware application will prevent the individual user from doing the same dumb things. Contrary to the beliefs of many users, there really isn't a Malware Fairy who flitters around, waving her magic wand when you aren't looking, and Hey, Presto - your box is infected _again_
Old guy
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