Re: hacker tracking

2017-06-19 Thread Joe
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 08:00:30 -0700 Mike McClain wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 08:05:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > The hits are coming from bots running on cracked computers. The > > botnet operators control them through several layers of indirection. > > > > I

Re: hacker tracking

2017-06-19 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 07:26:01PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > Hi Mike. You are running stateful NAT, (stateful Network Address > Translation on your modem/router,) right? Also, your modem/router > should not be responding to ping(1)/icmp/ident packets since you do > not allow remote/external

Re: hacker tracking

2017-06-19 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 08:05:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > The hits are coming from bots running on cracked computers. The botnet > operators control them through several layers of indirection. > > I suspect that a majority of the Windows boxes in the world may be under > the control of

Re: hacker tracking

2017-06-18 Thread John Conover
Hi Mike. You are running stateful NAT, (stateful Network Address Translation on your modem/router,) right? Also, your modem/router should not be responding to ping(1)/icmp/ident packets since you do not allow remote/external access. Might try: https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 for

Re: hacker tracking

2017-06-18 Thread John Hasler
The hits are coming from bots running on cracked computers. The botnet operators control them through several layers of indirection. I suspect that a majority of the Windows boxes in the world may be under the control of botnets. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

hacker tracking

2017-06-18 Thread Mike McClain
First let me say that according to my IDS I haven't been hacked. I don't have a website or run any servers for off site access. Just an individual with an ATT internet connection. All the flack in the news lately about Russian hacking and Putin's denials got me curious and I enabled my