I have been tigtening all of the security up on my system recently. however I am a kazaa user and I am going to remove it. I am aware that Kazaa lite is now out but before I switch
I would like to clear up a small problem I have been having.

Ever since I installed Kazaa when using it I receave constant messages from my firewall that remote computers are trying to connect to me via every trogan port under the sun when rejected from one it goes to the next it seem to be an attack to gain access but the attacks are so predictable now I can only beleive that there is a system somewhere doing it automatically.

My firewall is norton 2002 which is very unlikely to be creating false alerts.

Im prety sure someones fuckin with my computer but im not sure who. I have tried all the useual tricks to find out what this machine is but I keep hitting dead ends. I have probed the remote computer for its vunrabilities but im quite new to hacking and there are no obvious exploits there.

My question is does anyone know the name of the system that that is used to access the spyware placed on your computer by kazaa and the ports it uses ?

Also does My firewall offer any protection from spyware, which would be better just called a legal trojan horse?

By the way it isnt the kazaa client trying to connect to its server.

well kazaa is called a peer to peer application. that means that you share files that others have already shared with you. so i am guessing that kazaa is just trying to open up a sharing port, i do believe that the program requires multiple ports so it is probably just trying to share your files.

if you insist on being paranoid you may want to look into a program called Netmon, it tells you all the active ports and what they are connected to, it also gives you the capiblity to close any open ports. i suggest you look into the situation a little more.

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873181.html

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=30425&cid=3269104

Somewhat under the same idea, (I hate making new topics just for a single question)

Can someone find your location out by checking your IP and the server you're from? I'm on a cable modem, so could people at least find my ISP server location ? I'm well aware that IP's change often, but lets assume that that isnt so, for the sake of arguement.

BTW, I heard there was a program in win 98 and 95 (i think) called winipconfig (or close to that, which allowed you to set your own IP address. How is this run and is ther an equivalent on win NT/2000/XP?

many thanks.

winipcfg is just to configure your ip, subnet, etc. you must first be asigned the ip before you can start to use it.

as far as tracing you its called a traceroute program which will trace the packets graphicly. you can do it in the command line in dos by the command "tracert". there is a good article on neworder about this that was released in the new article section a few days ago.

The NT/2000/XP software which is like winipcfg on 9x is ipconfig

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Typing 'WINIPCFG' at a dos prompt will allow you to configure your ip address, I think this is what you mean.

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what OS are you running because thats how you do it in win 9x systems

I run 98 it gives me all I need and more, I have han 2000 and xp installed and I didnt like eighter of them.

Im stayin with 98 for the moment.

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likewise except i use 98 SE. millenium is far infeior to 98. windows 2000 is a good M$ OS. i think im going to 2000 pro shortly.