hello some body know my IP address and that person get in my computer too. and i want to know how to change the IP address. i wanna format whole computer and will that help? i have firewall, norton but they are all useless. plz help me. thank alot

If you have a firewall then you are not using preoperly! If you gat Zone Alarm firewall and set it up correctly NO ONE will access your PC! Formatting your HD won't change the IP address. If you use a modem, then you can manually change it in the network connections folder, if however you use broadband then you will need to contact your ISP and ask them to change it for you! As I said earlier with a good firewall (Zone Alarm) and a good Anti Virus, you should have nothing to worry about! Hope this helps Matt

Actually if you have broadband, shutting the modem off for at least an hour should give you a different ip addy. Most broadband isp's use dynamic ip's (they change). If you do pay for a static then you need to contact the isp and have them change it.

If you have broadband, it'll be hard to change your ip. You have to wait for your lease to expire and for your isp to assign it to someone else. It usually takes days for me to change my ip address. Just set it for a static ip (so your computer won't renew it), and after a few days when your internet doesn't work, set it back to dynamic to get your new ip address. And I was hacked too just last weekend. My firewall and antivirus were circumvented (I'm crazy about security...I like securing stuff...I even had several encryption programs when only one is needed :P). Anyway, they got in because you have Windows XP. XP has an open network share problem that lets people into your computer. Your firewall won't help you because it thinks it's a valid connection (someone is logging into your computer via the network), and antivirus won't help because there is no virus. Even if you change your IP, it won't help because I believe the hacker usually installs something that notifies him of ip address changes (i had been waiting for my ip address to change, and at around the time i was hacked, it finally changed)...but after i did a complete format and re-install, he was still in my computer. If you check your logs (start->control panel->administrative tools->event viewer), you'll find weird stuff...like a network login, someone logged into your Administrator account for hours....the passwords to special accounts are changed (guest, administrator, etc). I couldn't go into safe mode because my administrator password was changed. Here's what I did: 1. Make sure you have a copy of your antivirus and firewall software handy (on a cd or disk). 2. Disconnect your computer from the internet (unplug your modem from your computer if you have broadband) 3. Format and re-install your OS 4. Install firewall and antivirus 5. Go to start->control panel->administrative tools->services. Go down to "server", right-click it, then click on properties. Switch it to "disable". This will prevent your computer from acting as a server..thus it won't listen for network share connections. If you have a home network, I don't know how this will affect it. 6. While on the services page, find your firewall and your antivirus services. Right-click each of them, and click on properties. Then click on "recovery". Then for the first two failure attempts, I would put "restart service" so if the hacker tries to circumvent it again, the firewall and antivirus will restart themselves. For the "subsequent failure", you can either put restart service or restart computer. I chose the latter because if that guy is persistent and keeps taking down my services, i won't my computer to restart and let me know about it...plus disconnect from the internet at the same time. Make sure the "reset failure count" is set to 1 day, and if you do restart computer, click at the button at the bottom to set a message before it reboots. 7. Go back online and update your antivirus, update drivers, re-install software, etc. Now if you have XP Pro, it might be easier. I had to do all of these steps because XP Home is much more restricted. You'll notice that some things might not work anymore, like microsoft's baseline security analyzer. It won't work because it requires your computer to act as a server. But that's good, because if a legitimate program can't access data on your computer, neither can the hacker. If you want to run a program that gets data from your computer, just undo step 5 above and re-initiate your server service. I had to re-install my OS like 4 times....I had to read up alot on it and try several times before i was able to deny the hacker access. Right now my computer is safe (finally). Again, it's not a firewall or antivirus problem...it's windows xp. I didn't have any viruses, I used my antivirus, plus several online virus scanners. I also used several trojan scanners like Tauscan and "The cleaner". My computer was completely clean. Well, at least of the trojans whose signatures are known. I still have copies of my logs....I saved them. I'm analyzing them to find the ip address of the person who hacked me, so i can report to their isp and send my logs to the isp. I believe breaking into someone's computer is a federal offense?

I had broadband a few months ago... but now i don't :(.... anyway, back to the the broadband stuff. When I had cable i also had a dynamic IP, since it wasn't changing every time i was reconnecting, I called my ISP, they said that my cable IP is dynamic, but that it will only change once every 10 months :O.... they said if you really need it to change, get a new ethernet card :@ (stupid ISP)... and about that hacking stuff, how do you khow you got hacked? did someone tell you they hacked you? is was prolly a (poser) lamer.. nothing to worry about just have your firewall set up as recommended! ~me

"If you check your logs (start->control panel->administrative tools->event viewer)" Hello, Just were do i go once im in the event viewer? Application? Security? System? and how could i tell that someone has logged into my pc or connected to it? Thanks for that tip

First off, the advice above is good but sometimes not needed. If you setup a firewall correctly you can basically kill all incoming traffic. The best way, IMHO, to set things up is using an firewall that is not a piece of software, but hardware. This is automatic if you are behind a router. In addition with this setup you can add more computers to your cable modem. I would get a linksys BEFSR41 for home use. Basically the router kills all incoming requests by default. If a hacker cant send a request to the comp, he cant connect to any backdoor or trojan that he has installed to infiltrate your system. The router can of course forward ports if you are running a webserver for instance you can tell it to forward you port 80 so people can see your site, but anything erlse will be killed. Still keep your antivirus, it wont stop you ffrom downloading anything (i.e. a virus) but it will stop you from being remotely accessed. hth. -Ryan