A plea for help against hackers
This is a plea for any possible help as my mac is under constant attack fom hackers. All that is protecting me is some trial tcp/ip monitoring software, a trial fire wall and the fact that most hackers are too stupid to realise that someone may actually NOT be using windows!, therefore a windows logon will not work. Anyway anybody out there got any sugestions? All I have really heard about is Macanalist.
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[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: FotNS ]</p>
Download a nice little.... virus from my absolute favorite store ever, Hotline. Send it to the attacker.
[/"YOU DIDN'T HERE THIS FROM ME MODE]
NMap will probably be able to tell you which version of Windoze they are running. Look up exploits for it. Like if it's 95 or 98, you're in luck. You can fry them with one packet. Other versions are equally weak, though, and it's unlkely that Mr Script Kiddie keeps up with M$'s patches (who can?).
I kid you not, there was an exploit for windows a few years back called the 'ping of death' where you sent one packet, which is supposed to go to port X, but by sending it to port Y instead, the remote machine would hard freeze. Hilarious! Repeat ad nauseum. Or write a Unix script that does one ping every, say, half hour.
Of every hour.
Every day.
Every week.
Mr Script kiddie will never figure it out, and will pull his hair out. That's when you look up exploits for Explorer and its major ActiveX/cookie/javascript weaknesses.
However, if you're really all that worried about it, then you could just go to <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com" target="_blank">www.versiontracker.com</a> and download BrickHouse (one word). It's a very good interface to the built-in MacOS X firewall.
then turn this over to the police