Re: A Hardware and Software Firewall Combination (I got Hacked!)

matt3000@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:
Let me guess: It was a website chat and you've being using MSIE. Or it was
Java-based and you had an outdatet version of J2SE installed? Or it was IRC
and you were using mIRC? Or and kind of Instant Messaging and you've been
using ICQ/Lite, AIM or Windows/MSN Messenger?

Or you're running various software downloaded from P2P networks?

No firewall could protect against such stupidities.

GREAT Guessing Seb!

Umm, It was Yahoo Messenger Chat using YahElite, I was and am using
Firefox, I have the latest Java update (1.5.06). My software is all
legit, I dont use peer to peer networks and I did not go to any hostile
websites.

THANK YOU for all your helpful assumptions, you helped me greatly.



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I have said this to many people over the years.
No matter how good your system is protected there is and always will be some one out there who can get in.
There is no such thing on this Earth as a 100% totally protected computer.
Never ask any one to hack into your PC, it just may be some one who can do it and really F*** things up for you. example personal data loss account name records and the such like.
And if any one says it cant be done then go tell that to the American secret servises and how they got hacked.
That just one name for starters.
Its not the first time that the American defence got hacked.
So it wont be to much effort for some one to get into a home PC or even a work`s PC.



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