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To: mr.mark who wrote (4357)	2/4/1999 8:39:00 PM
From: Green Receipt	Respond to of 32871

thats sort of what i was talking about. that sort of scheme. ports are one trick for walking down an IP and sneaking past firewalls. YOu can even use that trick to send out fake emails. for what its worth i encrypt all my important stuff like passwords. i use a program from counterpane.com that uses the blowfish algorithm. it works pretty good. and fwiw: i once wrote a program like the back orifice...many years ago long before there was an internet. but It was for an official job i was working so there was no criminal intent there. but yeah especially in windows. it is very easy to do that sort of stuff. if you own the website (.com) you can literally pretty much do anything you want. realistically though if someone did that at their .com site, well they would lose the trust of all their customers, and eventually the world. so I don't think someone would intentionally do that. instead i would expect a hacker to attach / modify someone else\'s .com to do that sort of stuff. that sucks about your experience. You should Get Windows NT its much better at protection. And don't use a plaintext password for your administrator. and if you want extra protection, when you login to the internet, make sure you log into your nt as a special account you setup that only has guest privelges and limited disk access. David.

To: mr.mark who wrote (4357)	2/4/1999 10:15:00 PM
From: Tom Swift	Respond to of 32871

This seems to be a disadvantage of cable modems, etc. which have fixed IPs. Since I have a dial-up modem, the most a sniffer can get from me is where I am for that session and which server I connect from -- If I get the "Ping of Death", I just have to reboot. Your IP can be snagged by all webpages, out going e-mail, and postings to usenet as has been discussed extensivly today. I have two strategies to protect myself: (1) I don't leave my computer on when I am not around it (saves on my electricity bill too), and (2) I have a graphical monitor of the transmissions going when I am online & "know" what the send/recieve patterns should look like. If I see anything unusual, I shut off my modem.