Consistently scanning my ports. I find it in poor taste to attempt to violate a machine that I have spent a substantial amount of time and money on.
2006-10-22 05:44:11 · 5 answers · asked by red_poison_frog 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
very little.
if your firewall is doing enough of a job to keep them out, be happy with that.
reporting it to law enforcement will have no effect unless a serious crime has been committed, and when it comes to home pcs there seems to be no such thing unless it involves child porn.
trying something illegal on them will likely not even work unless you've the knowledge to carry it out, and even if you did you'd just be coming down to their level which is pointless.
the internet is full of nasties and people wanting to take advantage of weaker internet users and unless you've specifically been hacked it's not worth the time to get involved with.
also, are you 100% positive it is someone scanning your ports, or just a server replying to requests from your computer sent out by either just normal programs or spyware/adware installed on your pc without your knowledge?
many programs installed on home pcs send out information over the internet without your knowledge, or 'phone home' to the software creators several times across a day so the incoming scans may just be the servers in question replying to your machine.
to be on the safe side, set your antivirus going, and then when the scan is done install and run ad-aware which is free from:
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3003-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=tab_rev
2006-10-22 05:45:17 · answer #1 · answered by piquet 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It might be a person, or it might be a bot automatically scanning various computers.
Go to http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl. Enter the IP and use the contact info that results to contact their ISP.
2006-10-22 12:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by IT Pro 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you have their IP, report them to their internet provider. If it continues, you can take legal measures to force them to stop.
2006-10-22 12:46:24 · answer #3 · answered by dingobluefoot 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
take it to a computer repair dude and he/she can put in loads of software to prevent this from happening or if you just call up a repair shop they can atleast tell you what to put in to get rid of this unwanted hacker. good luck
2006-10-22 12:47:16 · answer #4 · answered by *CiTsJuStMe* 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Buy a router. Problem solved.
2006-10-22 12:45:31 · answer #5 · answered by mommadillo 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋