Re: I'm an internet novice: HELP!!!!!

"Norm Donchin" <> wrote in message
news:s5c0b.148075$. net...
> I have Windows 98 and a cable internet connection. I also have McAfee
> Personal Firewall Plus. I'm a novice.
>
> A couple things have been happening that I feel powerless to do anything
> about, even with all the adjustments that can be made to Firewall.
>
> 1) For the past few months when I go into IE, I am often directed to a
porn
> site called www.adulthyperlinks.com, a site that I have never actually
> visited intentionally. It changes my home page to that site, so I go in
and
> change the home page back to what it was, clean out temporary files and
> history, and until it happens again, I'm OK. I have set my security level
> to prevent all cookies from coming in, but once in awhile I lower that
> setting for a few minutes so that I can use certain interactive sites,
like
> my bank. Then I quickly return the setting to repel all cookies.
Recently
> I banned the porn site from actually appearing, so it just searches and
then
> declares that it can't find the site. However, it's a major pain to have
to
> keep changing my home page. I've been reporting the events that appear to
> be the result of the incursion, to HackerWatch.com, but I don't know what
> that will do, if anything.

Get Spybot S+d and AD-aware. Google search for these.
If they fail, then get Hi-Jack this and follow instructions.
>
> 2) A few months ago I used Kazaa off and on for a week or so. Then with
> all the hoopla about copyrights I decided to forget it. I completely
> uninstalled Kazaa. However, I've been getting literally thousands of
> unsolicited attempts to make connections through various ports, from
"Kazaa
> peer to peer file sharing". None of them are allowed in, but at some
point
> all that traffic has got to be slowing me down. I've banned as many of
the
> ip addresses as I can, but that doesn't seem to have anything to do with
it,
> since all these file-sharing incursions are blocked anyway. What can I
do?
> (In the 4 minutes I have spent writing this message I have had 6 incursion
> attempts.)
>
> Any help with these two problems would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>
If you have a fixed ip address then you will just have to tolerate the
firewall alerts until they peterout.
If you can re-new your IP address then this will stop current hits against
the relevant ports but you will inherit another PI with it's own set of
skeletons.


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