Re: I am sick of windows firewall

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?

>
> Yours,
> VB.

thanks.

-- 
Rawat