How to Fight Back when Computer
Criminals Strike
by Carolyn Meinel
When computer criminals strike, there are easy, legal ways
to take care of them, heh, heh. You can even turn the chore of keeping your
computer safe into adrenaline-filled fun.
In this chapter you will learn how to:
One day I surfed to a computer security portal, the kind of
place that has links to everything cool, but no content of its own. Within
seconds my firewall went nuts. Someone was probing, trying to download my
files through Windows shares. Figure 1 shows what this kind of attack,
"NetBIOS Session," looks like. Since I don’t permit file downloads from my
desktop computer, this had to be someone behaving badly.
Figure 1: An attempt to access files on a Windows
computer. To protect the innocent or guilty, as the case may be, the image has
been altered to hide the real computer (999 is an invalid Internet address).
