I too see many hacking attempts on Home PCs (Win2000 and Win98). I am in the UK and on British Telecom's ADSL.
I find it interesting that many sweeps seem to be from Fast Bandwidth clients. I can change between ADSL and K56 and when on K56 attempts diminish. Firewall blocks the sweeps, the serious attempts and traces. Interesting to See that **MANY** attacks originate in Germany, some in Finland. Has anyone seen any attacks on XP yet? Open Administrative ports!!! Like bees to flowers. Jason > > > WASHINGTON -- Computer hackers, once satisfied to test their skills on > > large companies, are turning their sights to home computers that are > > faster, more powerful and less secure than ever before. > > On my private computer (DSL, dynamically assigned IP address), I > detect an increasing density of attack attempts. More or less serious > attempts happen every few minutes in average (depends on daytime). > Highest density is in the evening hours, when hackers and victims > find time to be online. > > This means the probability of an infection of an unprotected > private computer is quite high after only some hours of internet > access. Most ("normal") people I know use such unprotected > computers for internet access. > > Hadmut > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Cryptography Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]