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Blocked a hacker through norton firewall,they are sending a trojon horse. But they keep tryin to send it and was wondering what i should do?
Hi, my internet firewall has blocked a particular ip several times from the same location. But they continue to persist in trying to send me a trojon horse, what should i do? is there anything i can do?
Is there anyway of sending a message to the ip telling him that i know what he is doing?
Many thanks Andrew
Is there anyway of sending a message to the ip telling him that i know what he is doing?
Many thanks Andrew
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I am running windows xp and i have norton firewall running and the firewall has blocked the ip several times, really all i wanted to know was there some way of scaring off whoever is sending the trojon? and am i able to report them at all?
thanks Andrew
thanks Andrew
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Another site to check who the ISP is is http://www.arin.net Just put the IP in the box at the top, and click on Whois.
As for sending an e-mail or something to the person, don't. More than likely as hawgpig pointed out, it's possibly someone with a worm on their computer. But, if it is indeed someone with malicious intents, they will try harder.. By sending them an e-mail, you're confirming that one of the IP addresses they are scanning is valid.
Symantec should have a reporting feature in their firewall (most do). I know in free versions, it's disabled, but since you have their Personal Firewall, you paid for it. I would go through their help menus and see if there is a reporting option somewhere.
Also like hawgpig said, as long as your firewall is blocking them, sleep easy. But, keep everything updated (Firewall, antivirus, and Windows). That's the best way to make sure the 'nasties' don't get to you.
Hope this helps you.
Patrick.
As for sending an e-mail or something to the person, don't. More than likely as hawgpig pointed out, it's possibly someone with a worm on their computer. But, if it is indeed someone with malicious intents, they will try harder.. By sending them an e-mail, you're confirming that one of the IP addresses they are scanning is valid.
Symantec should have a reporting feature in their firewall (most do). I know in free versions, it's disabled, but since you have their Personal Firewall, you paid for it. I would go through their help menus and see if there is a reporting option somewhere.
Also like hawgpig said, as long as your firewall is blocking them, sleep easy. But, keep everything updated (Firewall, antivirus, and Windows). That's the best way to make sure the 'nasties' don't get to you.
Hope this helps you.
Patrick.
Is your drive shared??
If it is unshare it and update your OS!!
Good Luck