security and hacking

The easiest thing a hacker could do, assuming you have file sharing turned on, is to type two backslashes, your IP address, another backslash. This will display anything on your machine which is shared. If you shared any folders read/write, he can delete anything he finds. If you shared a printer, he can print to it.

I have a one hour web based class that I teach on UNDERSTANDING HACKER TOOLS AND HOW TO PROTECT YOUR DATA. Email me if you are interested. Anyhow - At a DOS prompt you can issue NET commands.
Two commands that are powerful are NET VIEW and NET USE. If you want to look at a computer with IP address 10.0.0.199 try
NET VIEW \\10.0.0.199. You can then issue a NET USE command to map a drive letter to shared resources. For Help type NET /? at a DOS prompt.

Just so you know Microsoft has fixed this hole somewhat so I here.

With out getting too detailed
Don't want to give people any ideas...

the tools windows supplies them. Its as easy as adding an entry in your lmhosts file with the computers ipaddress and its name. if you got the ip of the machine you wish to connect to windows has a program that will pull the computers name for you built into the windows os...

Once this is done the one tring to get into your machine is then able to connect to the machine they are tring to access through network neighborhood.

best way to protect yourself is to set up some sort of firewall to protect your machine blackice and atguard are good examples of excelent software firewalls you can install on your computer. both i belive are available on download.com

also never share folders with out setting passwords. that way if someone were to get to you this way they would still need a password. If you are sharing files and folders with no password protection the intruder has full reign over those files.

Just so you know Microsoft has fixed this hole somewhat so I here.

With out getting too detailed
Don't want to give people any ideas...

the tools windows supplies them. Its as easy as adding an entry in your lmhosts file with the computers ipaddress and its name. if you got the ip of the machine you wish to connect to windows has a program that will pull the computers name for you built into the windows os...

Once this is done the one tring to get into your machine is then able to connect to the machine they are tring to access through network neighborhood.

best way to protect yourself is to set up some sort of firewall to protect your machine blackice and atguard are good examples of excelent software firewalls you can install on your computer. both i belive are available on download.com

also never share folders with out setting passwords. that way if someone were to get to you this way they would still need a password. If you are sharing files and folders with no password protection the intruder has full reign over those files.

Just so you know Microsoft has fixed this hole somewhat so I here.

With out getting too detailed
Don't want to give people any ideas...

the tools windows supplies them. Its as easy as adding an entry in your lmhosts file with the computers ipaddress and its name. if you got the ip of the machine you wish to connect to windows has a program that will pull the computers name for you built into the windows os...

Once this is done the one tring to get into your machine is then able to connect to the machine they are tring to access through network neighborhood.

best way to protect yourself is to set up some sort of firewall to protect your machine blackice and atguard are good examples of excelent software firewalls you can install on your computer. both i belive are available on download.com

also never share folders with out setting passwords. that way if someone were to get to you this way they would still need a password. If you are sharing files and folders with no password protection the intruder has full reign over those files.

Just so you know Microsoft has fixed this hole somewhat so I here.

With out getting too detailed
Don't want to give people any ideas...

the tools windows supplies them. Its as easy as adding an entry in your lmhosts file with the computers ipaddress and its name. if you got the ip of the machine you wish to connect to windows has a program that will pull the computers name for you built into the windows os...

Once this is done the one tring to get into your machine is then able to connect to the machine they are tring to access through network neighborhood.

best way to protect yourself is to set up some sort of firewall to protect your machine blackice and atguard are good examples of excelent software firewalls you can install on your computer. both i belive are available on download.com

also never share folders with out setting passwords. that way if someone were to get to you this way they would still need a password. If you are sharing files and folders with no password protection the intruder has full reign over those files.

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