Re: I am sick of windows firewall

V S Rawat wrote:
> Volker Birk wrote:
>> V S Rawat <VSRawat@invalid.none> wrote:
>>> Some more insight sought into the working of
>>> hackers/crackers. Suppose I am offline (sleeping)
>>> overnight. I wake up in the morning, do my daily chores, and
>>> then boot the system and go on line.
>>> How does a hacker/cracker come to know that I have come
>>> online, and I have been assigned a dynamic IP address by my
>>> ISP? That is, before my system sends some traffic to their
>>> site/pc that makes them aware of my pc's existence.
>>
>> The problems for home user's PC are not crackers, the problem
>> are the automated attacks running and constantly scanning
>> every IP address in every address space of dial-in boxes any
>> time.
>
> Who (what type of people/agency) is running those automated
> attacks?

Script kiddies.

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