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 > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >------- > > >This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. >For more information on this free incident handling, management >and tracking system please see: > >http://aris.securityfocus.com Sara ~~~~ "One must still have chaos in oneself, to give birth to a dancing star." Nietzsche ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Mon Jul 02 2001 - 03:46:42 PDT