Oh, I don't know about getting hot under the collar
My PC was hacked and 600 megabytes of one of my partition drives was turned into a hidden and password protected file belonging to someone else. After I discovered its existance and deleted it by reformatting the partition, the hacker turned nasty and tried messing with my system files. My daughter's boyfriend helped me out a lot and I've ended up with ZoneAlarm. This seems to be effective protection against invasion.
We all think that there is nothing of interest to others in our PCs, but what hackers are interested in is making use of other people's computers for their own benefit. According to my teenage "hacker" advisor, the main means of entry is through ICQ and the main objectives are copying expensive software, concealing activity by using another person's computer for file access, and the creation of storage space for files that they don't want to keep in their own machine.. I leave it to your imagination as to what such files may consist of!!
While I was cleaning out trojans I found one that belonged to Network Solutions and another pointing to a US government computer in Texas
So, its not just paranoia, the b*st*rds really are out to get us...
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Through difficulties to the cinema
[This message has been edited by Blacksheep (edited 13 April 2000).]