According to my firewall, the same AOL user is trying to hack my pc, through any port possible. I’ve even banned the IP, but apparently it’s a spoof IP. I can’t access the internet through AOL without it attacking, so I have to use IE. AOL help online doesn’t work and the phone line offers no help. This person is persistant- it’s been at it for 3 hours, with over 70 blocked attempts.
So who do I report this to? I would figure the cops, but it would probably just waste their time and go no where. Furthermore, although I live in Houston, I also live in a small city with a miniscule police department.
It’s an automated attack (I’m willing to bet, anyway) and is probably (relatively) harmless port scanning.
As for who to report it to, report it to your ISP and their industrial strength firewalls and whatnot should clean things up for ya. (Depending on who your ISP is, of course. Some, I would imagine, just don’t care.)
Quick. Find your own pet hacker. A friend of mine had her computer broken into- even the live webcam until she physically disconnected it- and her computer-savvy boyfriend fixed the problem, found out where it was coming from (an American teen), and ended up sending the kid’s parents a print out of all the porn sites he’d gone to/downloaded from that year.
Well, I finally got through to the AOL technical support and this is what it essentially boils down to:
AOL was just pinging my computer after I went to Amazon.com, and my firewall over-reacted. Apparently AOL-Time Warner recently made deals with various e-companies to ping the user’s IP upon each visit.
This just confused the hell out of my firewall. So, I adjusted the settings, and it’s all better now.