Hello,
I've seen people write and post saying, "Since you are on dial-up, not having a firewall isn't a big deal since your IP address changes every time you call." Well, while you are online it is pretty easy to find out your IP address, correct??? This logic is false from what I understand, and most modem dial-up users are the easiest to hack into. People on dial-up still need to protect their systems, and I would even suggest they need to be even more careful than a broadband person who is behind a NAT router using internal IP addressing.
Am I incorrect? Isn't it easy to get a person's IP address easily? I've been hacked this way before while on a chat room called "Open24" many years ago. A person with the handle "FireAngel" was threatening people online and being a real jerk. I called her bluff and said I didn't believe she could harm me. Well, about 5 seconds later my system started buzzing and it rebooted. When the system tried to start back up, my system would not boot. Apparently she had connected to the computer over a dial-up link and erased the beginning sectors of my HD. I was running windows 95 at the time, and I was very new to computer security.
I've always wondered how people do such things, but it seems to me modem users are at a high risk just like everyone else. I want to learn how to defend against such things. The way she attacked me above is still unknown, but I do know win95 was full of security holes internet wise. It was an easy OS to hack if you were online. If anyone has more information about such things, I'd love to hear from you here if you are willing to share what you know to HELP (not HARM) folks.
Thanks,
I've seen people write and post saying, "Since you are on dial-up, not having a firewall isn't a big deal since your IP address changes every time you call." Well, while you are online it is pretty easy to find out your IP address, correct??? This logic is false from what I understand, and most modem dial-up users are the easiest to hack into. People on dial-up still need to protect their systems, and I would even suggest they need to be even more careful than a broadband person who is behind a NAT router using internal IP addressing.
Am I incorrect? Isn't it easy to get a person's IP address easily? I've been hacked this way before while on a chat room called "Open24" many years ago. A person with the handle "FireAngel" was threatening people online and being a real jerk. I called her bluff and said I didn't believe she could harm me. Well, about 5 seconds later my system started buzzing and it rebooted. When the system tried to start back up, my system would not boot. Apparently she had connected to the computer over a dial-up link and erased the beginning sectors of my HD. I was running windows 95 at the time, and I was very new to computer security.
I've always wondered how people do such things, but it seems to me modem users are at a high risk just like everyone else. I want to learn how to defend against such things. The way she attacked me above is still unknown, but I do know win95 was full of security holes internet wise. It was an easy OS to hack if you were online. If anyone has more information about such things, I'd love to hear from you here if you are willing to share what you know to HELP (not HARM) folks.
Thanks,
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