In these times where computer crimes have become one of the most normal things it’s nice that you can protect yourself.
Like Martin, i think that firewalls don’t help that much (i have never encountered one that worked good enough) And when i found X-NetStat i found a really good solution to this problem.
X-NetStat is a application that lists all the connections that your pc has as well as the program that has the connection. So you can see a lot of instances of your web browser for example when you just visited some sites. But you can also see other connections that you didn’t start. This can be an program like your anti virus that is updating, but it can also be the windows remote software connecting to an irc channel for example. When you see that happening you can make an rule with the right mouse button that will always kill that connection when it’s made.
The only downside to this program is that you have to look at the connections yourself, but it is an help if you have the feeling your pc has been hacked. Also i have switched to Linux (Kubuntu distro) as my main OS today as i was completely fed up with Windows, so if you have questions etc. about Linux you can ask them.
I know Martin will also switch to Linux in the future, so i won’t make very detailed reports of my Linux experience but i will answer some questions and maybe try out some software if you want
Related posts:
- Netstat: Quick and useful Linux network information
- Netstat Tutorial
- Realtime Network Connection Monitor
- Network Monitor Experts Extension For Microsoft Network Monitor
- Manage your ssh connections with SecPanel
- Network Monitoring Software NetWorx
- Tracing a Hacker
- Manage your secure shell connections from the GNOME panel
You may also want to try TCP View from Sysinternals.
Visit your site often — good info! Keep it up. FYI though, “allot” is not a word the way you are using it (nor is “alot” for that matter). Use “a lot” instead; it just looks smarter.
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Thanks I edited the post, just wanted to note that I’m not the author of this post :P