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Originally posted by BryanD
Too make a long story short(er), my investigation showed that in the 4 hours my system was on the web without any protection, I'd been hit with 6 different types of attacks, which resulted in 6 trojan or back-door programs being installed.
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Man, that sucks. It must have been someone trolling for unguarded IPs (using Nmap or one of the other various hacker tools) to test viruses. Or it could have been other infected machines getting into yours.
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Originally posted by BryanD
Just a bit of news here - do you know HOW they "go after the big fish?". They either get a zillion "drones" (otherwise known as unsuspecting desktops) to participate in one of the many types of concerted attack known as "Distributed Denial of Service" OR they can use your little fish system as one of a series of machines they use to acces and attack OTHER machines - hoping to direct attention to YOU in case someone gets on to them.
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Yes im familiar with denial of service attacks and bug exploits (i.e. the SQL slammer) used by hackers. Your right about being totally relaxed about security, it can pay bad. I know the odds my machine will be attaked are low but if it was, my router would be worth every penny i spent on it.