Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer?

[Sara Brigid Gaffney <irishelf () bellsouth net>]

I discovered that somehow that day both my firewalls had somehow
become misconfigured - thus, no alert.   I have a ADSL not a dial up
so the IP does not change.  I've never used Gnutella.  I have all
file sharing unchecked and have rigorous and specific rules set on my
firewalls.  Can't help it - I was hacked once, big time.

Two things happened just before this:  I had dl free PGP.  Perhaps I
mis-configured it when installing and that affected the others?  I
deleted PGP for now and checked at www.grc.com and I was back to
complete stealth mode.

Someone (else) mentioned that packets are always being sent - to
indicate perhaps that I should have seen some activity on my packet
sniffer.  I use CommView and it does NOT show packet capture when I
am not actively using the internet, i.e., when I'm on the net but not
surfing, etc. CommView is quiet.

Oh yes, the other thing that happened directly before this.  I was
having a slightly heated conversation with someone who I doubt would
harm me ---- but is a bit mischievous & has hacking skill.  Probably
a coincidence.  Who knows?   I was just too curious not to seek some
answer here.  Thanks for the many replies.  I appreciate all the info
and will try to hone my TP/IP skills or lack thereof.


On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 15:25:35 -0400, Jim Starke wrote:
> Sara Brigid Gaffney wrote:
> > I had my packet sniffer running on this solitary Windows PC but I
> > wasn't on the net.  Suddenly I noticed I was getting hit multiple
> > times a second.  They were coming from a range of sources but
> > targeted one port, 6346.
>
> Possibly the previous person who had the IP Address that you were
> assigned when you connected to your ISP was running Gnutella. It
> wasn't
> a DoS but just the fallout of other computers thinking that you were
> sharing files because they didn't know the previous user
> disconnected.
> I'm presuming that you are assigned a dynamic ip address by your
ISP.
> Normally disconnecting and dialing back into your ISP will fix the
> problem because it will assign you a new ip address.
>
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