Re: can a hacker do this?

From: Leonid Rosenboim (My_1st_name@Consultant.Com)
Date: 10/28/02 

From: "Leonid Rosenboim" <My_1st_name@Consultant.Com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:27:27 +0200

It is very likely that your ADSL router at least supports NAT,
which does provide a basic level of protection against outside attack.
There are various opinions about if NAT is indeed satisfactory,
but there are scenarios where even the most sophisticated firewalls
can't protect you either (e.g. a virus carried in a Web page or an e-mail
attachment).

Your case is a very typical hard disk mechanical break down,
it happened to me too several months ago, unfortunately. 

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"Kate Brown" <elvira@cockaigne.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8MWYxwGnVQv9EwTr@cockaigne.demon.co.uk...
> Probably the wrong group for this query, I apologise if so, but any
> pointers would be very welcome.
>
> We have two Toshiba laptops both with wireless cards linked to an ADSL
> router.  File sharing is not enabled. Last night mine was switched off,
> his was left on, with Outlook open on a draft message. This morning his
> hard disk appears to be trashed, making horrible clicky noises and
> unable to complete running scandisk or even to run Windows in safe mode.
> I run the free ZoneAlarm, he doesn't have a firewall on his machine, but
> there's nothing in my logs to indicate any probing.   It sounds like a
> mechanical breakdown to me, but could it have been a hacker?
>
>
> --
> Kate B
>
> PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'umra' at cockaigne if you
want
> to reply personally