I discovered that somehow that day both my firewalls had somehow
become misconfigured - thus, no alert. I have a ADSL not a dial up
so the IP does not change. I've never used Gnutella. I have all
file sharing unchecked and have rigorous and specific rules set on my
firewalls. Can't help it - I was hacked once, big time.
Two things happened just before this: I had dl free PGP. Perhaps I
mis-configured it when installing and that affected the others? I
deleted PGP for now and checked at www.grc.com and I was back to
complete stealth mode.
Someone (else) mentioned that packets are always being sent - to
indicate perhaps that I should have seen some activity on my packet
sniffer. I use CommView and it does NOT show packet capture when I
am not actively using the internet, i.e., when I'm on the net but not
surfing, etc. CommView is quiet.
Oh yes, the other thing that happened directly before this. I was
having a slightly heated conversation with someone who I doubt would
harm me ---- but is a bit mischievous & has hacking skill. Probably
a coincidence. Who knows? I was just too curious not to seek some
answer here. Thanks for the many replies. I appreciate all the info
and will try to hone my TP/IP skills or lack thereof.
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 15:25:35 -0400, Jim Starke wrote:
>Sara Brigid Gaffney wrote:
>>
>> I had my packet sniffer running on this solitary Windows PC but I
>> wasn't on the net. Suddenly I noticed I was getting hit multiple
>> times a second. They were coming from a range of sources but
>> targeted one port, 6346.
>
>Possibly the previous person who had the IP Address that you were
>assigned when you connected to your ISP was running Gnutella. It
>wasn't
>a DoS but just the fallout of other computers thinking that you were
>sharing files because they didn't know the previous user
>disconnected.
>I'm presuming that you are assigned a dynamic ip address by your
ISP.
>
>Normally disconnecting and dialing back into your ISP will fix the
>problem because it will assign you a new ip address.
>
>--
>Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
>http://www.jcsmall.com/homepage
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