A plea for help against hackers

macdonoaldmacdonoald
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
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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    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    at home I setup my router to route all incoming port requests to an internal IP that doesn't exist. I'm on a cable connection, and my IP hasn't changed in months. I've never had any problems. if I need someone to connect to a box on my internal network, I'll allow access briefly, but then I set it all back to what it was before.
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    fotnsfotns Posts: 301member
    If you have a broadband connection you will constantly have people probing your ports. A good start to your defense is a router that you set to not accept WAN requests. That way the hackers will not even know you are there. If you hook a Mac or PC directly to your modem then the hackers will receive a closed port response, but they will know you are there. Gibson Research at <a href="http://grc.com/default.htm"; target="_blank">http://grc.com/default.htm</a>; is a good place for info. Click on ShieldsUP and then click Probe My Ports.



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