Madmanmcp

Can you point me to the law or the FCC rule that says this? Things that you believe are wrong are not always against the law. Laws are always way behind technology and take years to catch up. I believe its wrong to connect to someone else wireless network and "steal" his bandwidth and freeload off some unsuspecting computer user. But am I actually breaking a law if I did? I don't think I am, but I am willing to read and learn if someone out there knows where it is.

Sorry I missed your reply somehow. shhh, I agree with you but was just giving the party line here.

You are sort of talking apples and oranges here. With the telephone or TV you are crossing a physical boundary to get them to work and it is trespassing. With wireless you are talking airwaves and the use of these airwaves is free and is covered under different rules. You are sitting in a public space when you access these airwaves.

Ok, thats from the FCC rules. So who exactly is doing the transmitting? If the network is open "anyone" can use it. I send a request to the network to view a specific web site and the router transmits the request on. Since the Network is open I was given permission to use it. The network is doing all the transmitting. Where is the illegality? Maybe this is why all the War drivers do what they do and the police just tell them to move along.

Thats good Don, but it might be deceiving if you are behind a router or firewall. Try without them and see what you get.

I have. If you goto grc.com and visit the Shieldsup portion of Steve Gibson site, he explains in depth how to tighten security on your systems and lets you run a test to see how well you did. I've pretty much unbound all the security risks on all computers on my network. Yes I could go the extra mile and tighten even further. Maybe I will if someone gets thru what I have now.

Are you sure? If someone leaves their access open, its not illegal to access and use it. You can't steal files or data or do damage like changing or deleting files. But just browsing the web I believe is ok...unless you secure it and its hacked or broken into. I believe since its wireless and is broadcast over the radio wavelength its covered by FCC rules...and receiving radio frequencies is not illegal. But I could be wrong .

I use GRC.com to tighten my network and check for holes. The only things I "share" are the printers and internet access. If someone really wants to sit in a car outside my house, in the cold or the heat just to get a poor connection and use my internet...go for it. If it starts slowing the network down I'll just chase them away with a shotgun . And if they really want to print something they will need to knock on the door and I'll charge them 10 cents a sheet if they want to keep it. But I am trained for networking so I have a good idea what I am doing.

Ahh, what I originally suspected. Glad you found a way to catch them and get rid of them.

Hi Betty, trouble shooting hardware problems is very hard to do on a forum like this. Its even more difficult doing it when its coming thru a third party. Information is lost or changed when its retold several times. From what you have mentioned I have no idea whats going on and would suggest they find someone to look at it locally. There are very few PC's made now adays that use the "B" drive, the A and B drive are reservered drives (letters) for removable floppy disks. And most PC's now only come with one 3 1/2" floppy disk. The IOSUBYS is one of the bootup files used for the Input/Output Subsystem on the system. The computer cannot work without it and it maybe bad and not loading, which would explain why it shuts down. Have him get someone to look at it is my advice.

Make, as others have mention you NEED to upgrade to the current version. See this post: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...ndpost&p=117184 Just blocking the IP that caused the initial attack is not enough. That attacker may get a new IP and come back or another attacker may find you. The only sure way to be safe is to upgrade your version.

The index.html (and others) go under the public_html folder.

Wonderful. A driveby hacker with negative view on life, what a surprise.

Submit a Help Desk ticket, link is above.

Is Windows firewall on?

The company you purchased the domain from doesn't know how to do a reverse lookup?

See if something here will work. h_tp://www.freeperlcode.com/guide/Address_Books/

See if the following instructions help. h_tp://www.willamette.edu/wits/resources/docs/network/home/browserftp.htm yes.

!@%$^(* and I'll leave it at that

LOL I won't mention the words I was coming up with....

Yes, create a blank index file and upload it into your public_html folder. Contents of file: <html> <body> </body> </html> save the file as "index.htm" or "index.html"

Yes, this will wipe out all the security updates and Service Packs that you have installed. A better way to do this is to use the System Restore feature that comes with XP. You can start by picking a Restore Point dated before the error stated occurring and see if this will fix your error.

Jim, 1. I don't think its a "simple" port 25 block. Its more complicated in that its blocking access to port 25 for any IP that is outside of SBC's IP ranges. And with all the ISP's that SBC has gobbled up the "include" list of SBC's IP's is very large and spread all over the place. 2. Yes the spammers can switch to 26, but having to authenticate is difficult. From what I understand they currently write their own mail program. To get authenticated they would need to use the mail program on the machine they have taken over. Not impossible, just more difficult and more likely to be discovered.

Thomas, first scan for a virus or Trojan. the Svchost.exe is used by RPC or RASMAN for Remote Access and hackers are using these to take over computers.

I fix on average about 2 PC's a week for friends and friends of friends. Lately its gotten to the point where it takes way too long to manually remove and clean all the junk thats on or infecting these machines. Before I start I make sure the owners bring the CD's for each computer and in most cases I just reset the computer back to the state it was when it was purchased. I then download all the patches and upgrades, install Adaware and Spybot and make sure the Firewall is on and a Virus program is up-to-date and running. Trying to fix all the different problems is an impossible task.