One of the many reasons I love norton internet security:

[Cryer]

Firewall blocked an intrusion attempt and provides me with all the pertanent info on the attacker.

[mcveighr]

Yeah MacAfee does that too, along with every other good Virus Protection/Firewall.

[Dayspring]

The fact that it gives you the street address is cool...

Call him up and tell him "Stop trying to break into my computer."

That'll freak him out.

[Cryer]

Originally posted by Dayspring
The fact that it gives you the street address is cool...

Call him up and tell him "Stop trying to break into my computer."

That'll freak him out.

Imagine someone showing up on his doorstep

Prolly some little 14 year old punk :o

[xmetal2001]

I don't think it will give you the names of people though, Bell Sympatico isn't a person, its a company.

[jdev]

Originally posted by Dayspring
The fact that it gives you the street address is cool...

Call him up and tell him "Stop trying to break into my computer."

That'll freak him out.

that address is the owner of the ARIN netblock, not the actual user. you would have to contact the netblock owner, and have them determine who is assigned that IP address through their routers/switches and doodoo like that.

example:

http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-67-70-84-0-1

(copy the entire thing, vBulletin doesnt parse it correctly)

[Cryer]

Originally posted by xmetal2001
I don't think it will give you the names of people though, Bell Sympatico isn't a person, its a company.

Yeah, I figured that. Bell sympatico is a canadian telecommunication company. They do stuff like telemarketing, internet sales, etc.

[Rather]

Originally posted by Cryer
Yeah, I figured that. Bell sympatico is a canadian telecommunication company. They do stuff like telemarketing, internet sales, etc.

In otherwords... spam and popups.

Burn it to the ground says I.

Too bad they're In the great white north instead of somewhere closer like Oklahoma....

[mcveighr]

BEll Sympatico is an ISP and maybe a phone company, I'm not sure on that one.

It doesn't give you the persons address it gives you the address of his ISP.

You could call and complain, give them his Ip, and when the attack happened.

[fire1811]

cool i would do as mcveighr stated

[Cryer]

I've already dispatched an email

[e mag]

What kind of attack was it? More then likely whoever did it just has a trojan on their computer.

[Cryer]

Originally posted by e mag
What kind of attack was it? More then likely whoever did it just has a trojan on their computer.

It was a netbus trojan.
I'm not sure of how those operate; if it was malicious, or the other party was unaware of the activity. Either way, I've notified sympatico of the event, and they can take the next step, whatever that may be.

[Wolfen]

I've had a couple intrusion attempts from Bel-Air, Cal. Next time I get one, any of you people out that way want to do me a favor? I'll supply the Nine-Iron and a Louisville Slugger complete with half inch nail.

[Halliday]

Man that thing already has it's crosshairs on him. Just nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure