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NFR Wizards Archives: Re: Help, some one's hacked into my home

Re: Help, some one's hacked into my home computer

Subject: Re: Help, some one's hacked into my home computer
From: Mike MacKinnon, Michelle McHugh (mikennonattcanada.net)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 07:50:02 CST

I consider this completely non-technical, but I have seen it overlooked many times. If you have a permanent internet connection like DSL modem, and you have read\write access to you drives, put a password on those shares (sorry if you already have, but i missed any mention of it). Someone I used to share an office with found all the available shares in plain old Network Neighborhood with his DSL connection. The ISP was new to setting them up and had never implemented any sort of security to prevent this. My friend just browsed (not hacked) onto all the computers that were on his local router, full access, unless they had a password.
 
But as someone else mentioned, Win95/98 is just not secure.
 
and Black Ice and other such programs give you all the dirty details about such entries.
 
mike

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