The XP (Home edition) on the Dell computer that I look after seems to be under attack by a hacker using the Net Spy trojan program. Always on bootup Nortons 2003 Internet Security reports that there will be three or four blocked attacks from the outside using the Net Spy program. The address given is: 127.0.0.0.1. I have been told that this address is from within the local network. There isn’t a local network. There are 5 computers that share a wireless DSL modem. They are not networked (in no way directly connected) together. These “attacks” were occuring before the other 4 were joined to the modem. For the record, the other OP Systems are: XP, Win98, and 2 which are Mac OS10. Nortons Anti-Virus does not find any trace of any virus. There is a anti-Spyware program (SpyBot S&D) also run regularly on this system.
What is going on? How can it be stopped?