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Anti-Hacking

Ignorance is bliss, unfortunately on the Internet; it can mean certain abuse. Until I found Steve Gibson's site, I had no clue what was happening (or could happen) while I was surfing the Net.

Try Steve's Tests and see what some people with the know-how, can find out about you while you're happily surfing the Net.

Finding out the worse from his site's tests, I was persuaded to download and install which was recommended by Steve.

That was back in 1998, and now, if my is not on I will NEVER get on the Internet. That's cause over the years I have read all the alerts reports and the MANY attempts to 'scan' and 'probe' my computer using so many different methods.

I know there is nothing to fear as I hold no TOP SECRET government document or I don't run a drug ring from Timbuktoo but I'd get upset not knowing who was doing what with my computer (or worse still, THROUGH my computer - read the excerpt from an article on Steve's site).

It probably comes as no surprise that the top two U.S. residential cable-modem Internet service providers - @Home and Road Runner - provide Internet connectivity to the host machines most often sought by malicious hackers for the installation of bandwidth flooding Zombie attack Trojans...

... I have recorded the IPs and account numbers of more than 100 @home subscribers who have security-compromised Windows machines currently running active Trojan attack Zombies. As we will see below, each of those machines also receives a complimentary copy of the latest version (v2.21) of the incredibly invasive Sub7Server Trojan. This grants the hacker who is controlling the Zombie - the "Zombie-master" - absolute control over his victims' machines.

Steve Gibson - http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm

The above (very interesting) article on Steve's site describes how a 13 year old kid over many days, staged DDoS attacks on GRC.COM using other peoples' computers!

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