My computer is constantly being pinged. Should I email an alert to the hijacked servers, and if so, to whom?

Question

Sometimes there's a message like this embedded in the trace: "report abuse to [e-mail]." Should I write there, or could that be fake?

Other times there are a lot of e-mail addresses listed with "change ..." in front of each one; hard to find which one to write to, but there's often one or more with "abuse" in the address.

If I try to e-mail the individual or company computer being hijacked, what should I be careful of to keep my own computer safe?

Thank you for any help you can give.

Answer 1

There are tons of computer being pinged/port scanned looking for way to exploit them. You can do aipwhois and report them. This doesn't stop them all the time but at least you are doing something about.

Answer 2

Since network problems, don't use e-mail to alert the hijacked server. You don't even know who are taking your service. You should use phone and call the customer service of your service provider.

Pinging for port may not be a bad thing because this is a part of routers in internet. It needs to find ways to deliever the message.

You need a good firewall and set it to "reject all but accept permitted." You can edit the permitted list to make your internet useful.

You can also set your e-mail software to consider "..change.." as junk.