What to do you if you are attacked or hacked

[JorgeIvan]

Many computer users are "innocent" victims of internet and computer vandalism. Their computer has been attacked or even totally breached and its totally open to some hacker on the other side of the world. Or some co-worker or friend or wife (!!!) has installed some monitoring program onto it to see what are users doing with it which makes them easy to read all email, passphrases and so on. What ever the motives and goals for these people are we can only imagine. The problem is, that people who are not familiar with the computers and operating systems are usually totally unaware of all this. When they finally have a clue, they dont know what to do about it. I try to give some tips on how to reach in such cases where you believe that you are under attack or hacked.

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Securing yourself & your computer

[IK47]

wow

[caye]

fine!

[Osiris]

Stop, duck and cover.

Hrmm this guide started off good, then became tantamount to a parnoid guide to the net.

[thunderbird_117]

Attack and tracing them and put them in jail.and throw they computers in garbage and no computers for lifetime.

[+Mystic MVC]

Stop, duck and cover.

Hrmm this guide started off good, then became tantamount to a parnoid guide to the net.

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Your leaving yourself open by posting on this very forum, watch yourself :happy:

Nice try JorgeIv?η? someone around these forums will have a use for the gui:) :)

[dotRoot]

How come you recommend Active Ports for seeing what connections are listening and such when all they have to do is use "netstat -a"? How come you tell them about some (non-free) "good" trace routing tools when they can just use the "tracert" command and write out some simple steps to figure out what ISP its from or even just tell them to use something like: Symantec's Visual Route (Visual Route java app on symantec's site)? Why would you just tell people to check stuff like the win.ini (16-bit legacy) for startups when they can simply use "msconfig". I'd also recommend noting StartUp Mechanic as it has a database for explanations on what most processes that start up are and makes it easy for a user without much computer knowledge know what's going on and such.

You say things such as: "root kit", but you don't explain what it is. Most people that know what a root kit actually is, probably wouldn't need this guide or you say: "use proxies", well how would they even know what a proxy is or where to find one? And why not mention using an old computer or something as a gateway and explain about those if you want to talk about securing with firewalls for the paranoid? Since you are talking about hackers AFTER they've infiltrated you as well, why not mention how important it is to use some sort of encrypter for your personal information? How would someone know what looks out of place on a motherboard?

I'm not trying to make fun of your article, but these are just some things I think you need to think about when writing something like this. I didn't talk about everything I found, but hopefully you'll look through it again from a perspective that isn't that computer literate and/or security literate.

Keep it up, I'm sure if you stick to it, this will become very comprehensive. :)

Edited December 25, 2004 by dotRoot

[BxBoy]

the best prevention tool is COMMON SENSE

[b3n]

lol

just dont run virus.exe :p

[Larney]

lol

just dont run virus.exe :p

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"Run the .exe anywhere but the steam folder"

the best prevention tool is COMMON SENSE

Indeed.