Grunt_Style Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 accually just by guessing.....the zonealarm has a lable for each program as well as an IP adress. if the name sounds familiar( i.e. a download manager i use or a website i access alot) i let it pass. if i dont like the name or dont trust it(i.e. tinyteens or megajugs and whatnot) i dont let it pass. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunt_Style Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 truth is i just fumble around with computers compared to the rest of you gurus. i know well above the avarage person. but am no whear near savy enough to act like i really know much at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 IP addresses can be spoofed. Search the NET for the terms 'Trace Route' which will help you on your road to figuring this stuff out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cythrawl Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 Also theres some useful stuff on here that also might help you with those IP addresses... http://www.dnsstuff.com/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 sorry didnt realize i merged it with a locked thread its open again Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunt_Style Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 How are you reaching your suspisions?Has anything odd been happening on your PC? Remember that a lot of traffic could be from old infected PC's trying to put a worm on your PC (Port 139), and you also get a lot of netbios traffic thats pretty much harmless. Unless something specific is happening and your firewall is going berzerk then I think you have nothing to worry about. long story short: i wanted my neice to check out something online. her friends brother was on the computer. i told her to kick him off....or id run a skip trace on thier IP and nuke his computer using a website we were both on at the time(note: i compleatly made this term up.....it refers to skip trace credit checking). truth is i was just talkin trash to get him off. later i find out hes a super geek who does hack....no bs. ive bit offf more than i can chew this time. and ill freely admit that. over the last few days minor annoying thins have been happening. cant run dos aplications anymore....something to do with system32autoexec.nt not suitable for running dos and ms windows apps. my nec DVD burner works......but wont burn DVD's only cd's/VCD's. and it only reads at 12x instead of 58x. just all around minor things are going haywire and they started the same day. like i said its probabluy paranoia. but i want to be sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynomutt Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 if someone has control of your computer then there will be evidence of this, such as a warning that someone else is logged on when trying to shutdown the computer and other odd things happening, google all running processes from the task manager for a description if you do not know what they areyou know you are not running it as any program running on your PC will be displayed in there along with its memory,CPU usage and the user account that is running it be it network, system you or anybody else. good luck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphie Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 Don't think you're being hacked, there are far more painful ways to punish someone for leaving this ports open, He would also had to install a trojan to grasp your password and then he would only be able to acces your PC through Telnet since he's not in the same workgroup or domain. I think your windows is just due for a fresh install and being paranoid just makes it more obvious. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunt_Style Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 by following reason and logic i had the same conclusion raphie. but better safe than sorry......i thought id ask just the same. at best i gain knowledge. at worst i sound the paranoid fool. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanSeasforMe Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 Format Format Format Abort abort abort I third that. Better to be safe than sorry. Save your important stuff, format reinstall and and be carefull of running exe's from your old data that you put back into the new install. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunt_Style Posted November 21, 2005 Posted November 21, 2005 the only thing important i have on my pc,comes in the form of Jpegs and AVI's. if ya catch my drift Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanSeasforMe Posted November 22, 2005 Posted November 22, 2005 In addition to regular Antivirus, you might try trend micro housecall as it dosent require you to unstall your current antivirus to run. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ I use AVG, but if I want to be certain. (*if I think I have been infected) I try the AVirus from the Trend Micro page. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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