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[Juneaudave]

Geee... I feel better now that I got that off my chest!

[anonymous2]

Hi all,

Funny thing, after I posted about being hacked on this board,I had 3 separate hack attempts within an hour. The last time I had a hack attempt was over a year ago. Thankfully my fire wall held. Could it have been a reader of my post? Hummm?

pateardropper

[Ira]

How do you know if you're being hacked?

Although I've worked with computers a long time, I don't know squat about internet security--plus I'm on regular dial-up to boot, with no firewall.

I'm on a Mac, and supposedly, it's a lot more secure in regards to this, but here's what hapened to me a few years ago:

I tried to get online via my ISP, and I see the account is closed. I call them, and they tell me they suspended the account because someone was accessing the net via like Texas or somewhere, and since they knew I lived in FL, they were suspicious.

There's just too much to think about these days.

[anonymous2]

My Norton internet security pops up a window that states a hack attempt was directed at my computer,and gives me the IP address of attempt. I wrote them all down and gave them to the wife. She can trace them back to original computer. Most times they are also blocked by Internet security firewalls,but occasionally we get lucky. Norton used to have a trace back feature,and showed on a map where the hack came from. Probably firewalls blocked the feature,and they dropped it. Some features of Norton just plain suck. I will be going back to Trend Micro when my Norton subscription is up. Norton's antivirus sucks. I got a virus,Norton never found it ,but Trend Micro did. Nortons firewall is pretty good though,and has blocked all attempts at my computer. Trend Micro has a free virus scan,spyware,and security scan, and removal tool that works good for freeware. I virus scan with Norton first,and Trend Micro freeware for now,and it usually gets any viruses,trojans,and worms.The last virus was a minor one that Norton failed to pick up. If it can't deal with the minor stuff ,it wonders me what it does with the major ones. Got Norton Free with the computer. Wife has Mcafee{came with computer} and not much better. She too is going Trend Micro ,soon.

pateardropper

[Ira]

I may have this totally wrong, but I don't think there's going to BE Norton in a year, that they were acquired.

I DO know that Norton has always been the main diagnostics tool (plus security) for the Mac, but they haven't rewritten their stuff to be compatible with Mac's latest OS--Tiger.

So now for the Mac on Tiger, it's TechTool, and TechTool only.