If I Were you I would get A better firewall than Windows.. Like Zone Alarm Or or BlackIce. Get A good antivirus Like Kaspersky. Run Spyware Scans/ Virus scans. Keep all your software updated.

Originally Posted by highanddry

I don't find windows firewall to compromise any external firewall and I wouldn't turn it off. If you use Nod32 and keep it updated and run scans you should be golden

An external firewall, ie on a router, will not cause too many conflicts. Having two firewalls on the same machine, such as the Windows firewall and Norton firewall, will cause conflicts, hence why I said if you are going to use a third party firewall, turn off the Windows firewall.

When I say external firewall, I mean one that resides on dedicated hardware, such as a router.

External firewalls, if configured properly should cause little or no problems. But then again, if you’re using a router, then it will be using either NAT or PAT and it would be very difficult for the outside work to see your machines.

However! The biggest problem is users downloading something off the Internet that contains a trojan or some program to that affect, which then sends data from your machine to a remote location, such as a server. Now because the data came from your machine, Windows firewall does not filter outgoing traffic and also the router thinks that the data is valid, and so stores information regarding the data, such as source IP (eg 172.16.1.2), destination IP (eg 156.35.89.32) and I think port number. When the "hacker" attempts to connect back to your machine, the router and Windows firewall allows the traffic, because the original data came from your machine, and so they both allow the "hacker" to connect to your machine. But a properly configured external firewall (such as the one built into most routers) will help prevent this from happening.

Comodo Firewall with Defense+ Is good and free, I have a hard time breaking into a friend that uses it too.

They are many ways to hack into a computer using the internet but its illegal. The net is crawling with ebooks with techniques you can use. But be sure to be familiar with programming first.

Hacking is illegal.
Then why u want to login to other computer ?
Will u like others seeing ur personal data ?

Interesting question...

Originally Posted by LadynRed

If you're on a wireless network, make sure that you have at least WAP encryption set too. If you are using a router, make sure the admin password has been set to something other than the default.

To add on that note... make sure that you do not make a password such as "abc123" because passwords of this security level can be easily h4ck3d using BRUTE FORCE. Just to be on the safe side you password should look something like this a67D4jk9lolProtected.

,naster

it's kinda late to reply however i suggest you to remove all programs that you think that is suspicious in your pc..to be exact remote access..

learn it by downloading cain and abel...you can learn allot of things there...but if you just want to open ah windows log on password try using ophcrack...