Hello I am new here. I am just starting to learn about computers. I see everyone here seems to be into zome alrm. I myself have a firewall that not only blocks an attacker.but tracks them and traces them giving me their Ip addy and location on a map,along with their isp and contact information for reporting abuse to their ISP. I get 10 or so attempted hacks a day through a trojan horse. I have reported almost all of them and actually some of them(isp's a) are prosecuting. I know this doesnt always work as hackers can "piggyback" off another persons pc.
Recently I have heard about a program called hacktrace. I found a hacktrace 2.1 at a website but it did not offer the services I heard about. Is there a program out there that will give me more detailed info about my attmepted hackers? I want it all. This all stemmed from someone who hacked me and obtained personal info of mine right after I built this new computer as I didnt install my firewall immediately. It happened very fast and the person got money from me and the police are now involved. So you can see why I am such a fanatic about this.
Please if anyone has any info about a program that will give me more info including their email or name etc,it would be greatly appreciated!
And btw,hello all nice to meet you! I am enjoying this site!

Sincerely,
the amazon banshee

thanks for the reply webman!When I purchased my morton internet security from Best Buy I described my recent situation as well for needing it. He pulled me aside and told me that a program called "hacktrace" would give me even more personal info about my hacker. He stated that I could download it from any shareware site like Kazaa.I myself hate kazaa and use limewire. I looked it up there.and of course.even though it said hacktrace,in the end what I got was porn (what a shocker).lolAs for deriving more info,I do have a site that i found where you can get info from just an IP addy,but it only works part of the time

thanks again

your obtaining the most critical of information.. the IP, you should be logging the activity that the remote computer is doing or trying to do, all of it.. you MUST have complete un-altered logs! if the remote isp is doing what they are supposed to and logging thier traffic it is very easy to catch someone. the remote isp should be able to tell authorities who had that ip at that specific time. the only other thing that may provide usefull is to start capturing packets when you know when a hack is happening. by captureing packets you can find out if someone is 'piggybacking' the best security to have is
1 stay current on updates for your OS
2 stay current on updates for virus scanners and other software
3 use your firewall to block EVERYTHING, then open up just the ports that you need.

That message you recieved doesn't mean you were hacked! When you get hacked.. you usually don't know. That is the whole point of a good hack job! That message means that someone tried to connect to your computer wether routinely for a good purpose or an actual individual with a purpose, and that it was forbidden.

If you are hacked, and you get the IP address like the one above.. 210.210.121.72, use a program, or your own method of doing some reverse type of lookup, and find out where that IP address is first connected to the net (some ISP usually). Then do your best to contact that ISP with all the info you have! But make sure your computer is hacked first before you complain. If you get just a message like the one in your message, it means that you were not hacked and that the firewall detected someone trying to find out more about your computer!

Hope that helps!

- Ed

its usually fairly easy to figure out if that address is incorrect. Some of them will allow you to still send packets back to the original  sender. Depends what you are using. Anonymizer just copys nd resends to you, masking works differently.

Unfortunately there is no 100% guarenteed way to figure out who or where the 'hacker' actually is. You usually can backtrace but they nest them selves between 10's of systems, and general by the time they backtrace far enough, they will have already switched ip's and masking Ip's or finished their dirty work.

- Ed

It looks like windows is calling home! Not 100% sure on that though.If in doubt, I would deny it! Are you trying to use Mp3 streaming by any chance?

- Ed

i found this site when i was doing some reverse ip look up for our logs are work
maybe others can find it usefull if you have and IP from zone alarm or somthing similare. it gives you the remote isp's contact information. If you contact the ISP and report what ip it was at what time, they should be able to review thier logs and identify what individual was using that ip at that time

http://www.psacake.com/web/eg.asp

-Jesse