It´s war in the WWW...

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 7:34 am

Oh man, I´ve installed the latest ZoneAlarm version to protect my Internet PC a little.
I´ve installed it 6 days ago and I´ve installed a virgin system image few weeks ago.
When I´am looking at the overview window I can read 32598 intrusions with 554 of them high rated and 952 blocked attempts to access my PC, growing nearly every second.

32651, 997 attempts , engage all battle stations..
Whoever wants to battle me, show your face!
The net is a war place.

aMo · Post by **aMo** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:32 am

Dont you susoect that the creators of Zone Alarm is just faking those attempts?
If they make you paranoid enough, you will buy the latest update for their program.. Thus they make money..

Just like the virus protection people, it's strange how they always come up with a cure for a virus almost instantaneous after a new virus is launched..

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:56 am

That´s a sharp tought and I also had this in my mind. But how would you block those "real" attempts to access your Computer?

Once I had downloaded a download manager called NetPumper, it access to a server and transmit every file I´ve downloaded,I guess.
Anyway after I had installed this Pumper the problems start, after I exterminate this Prg it was quite on my PC again.
Also I´ve installed the new Windows Media Player, I´ve unchecked all options that WMP transmits datas to microcsoft about every mp3 or movie I load. But I don´t have any trust in this.
The web is a good place to trace the people and record what they are surf, watch, download and use, a good and easy way to control people,or?
Everybody should have a computer,hehe.

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krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:58 am

Check a little closer. You might find the majority of those alerts are false positives. I'm pretty sure you can configure ZoneAlarm so it doesn't beep at you every time you get a false positive.

Also - be careful about running firewalls on your recording PC.

aMo · Post by **aMo** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 11:08 am

Better to use an external firewall, such as a router or another computer..

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 11:26 am

What can happen when I use a firewall on my recording PC? I don´t enter the internet with my music PC,though?
But I´am curious, krizrox.

We plan to use a router next week.

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braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:21 pm

but it's better to have a router and a software firewall because as I understand it a router prevents attacks from outside your computer but does nothing to prevent a trojan horse you might have accidentally installed from sending data from your computer to the outside.

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 3:46 pm

On 2003-09-14 12:26, ChrisWerner wrote:
What can happen when I use a firewall on my recording PC? I don´t enter the internet with my music PC,though?
But I´am curious, krizrox.

I did some tests last year using ZoneAlarm and BlackIce Defender. Both applications caused excess noise on my PC while running Pulsar.

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:48 am

This is going wild.
39700 intrusion now, every second I get 15+ attempts.
Crazy..40008 now.

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 3:50 am

The problem is solved, it was the gain_trickler3202 file from the DivX player.
Can you belive 15 tried accesses in a second?
I´ve renamed those tricklers and now it´s quite on my PC again.
Be careful with DivX!
Have a nice ,maybe Flexor weekend!

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 6:46 am

Just to be meticulous (like a nerd has to be), the war is not in the WWW but in the internet.
WWW is the subsystem of internet that uses HTTP protocol.
Most crackers don't use HTTP