okay, SG has her "I used to work in a computer bank" hat on. first of all they may not be interested in what you have in your bank, it could be spam related, what happens is they set up a ghost on your pc and then use it as part of a hacking circle, so if they get caught it will go through all these different computers or they'll use it to send out one of hundreds of attacks at the same time crashing the server unfortunately it happens, it's happened to me, I'm a bit gungho when it comes to this (years of working for egg and hearing evrey horror story going) and format my hdd just to make sure, but I have about six firewalls and things. if they get into mine i'll be surprised but it has happened.
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Date: 2006-10-12 12:31 pm (UTC)first of all they may not be interested in what you have in your bank, it could be spam related, what happens is they set up a ghost on your pc and then use it as part of a hacking circle, so if they get caught it will go through all these different computers
or they'll use it to send out one of hundreds of attacks at the same time crashing the server
unfortunately it happens, it's happened to me,
I'm a bit gungho when it comes to this (years of working for egg and hearing evrey horror story going) and format my hdd just to make sure, but I have about six firewalls and things. if they get into mine i'll be surprised but it has happened.