a hacker
 

since 9:49 eastern time, someone at ip address 12.239.146.24 has been pinging/hacking my computer. It is now 1:03 pm eastern time. I am getting a notice from my firewall about every 4 minutes with this ip, and it says it comes from Gnutella. I just joined Gnutella a few minutes ago so that maybe I could receive some help on this...I already notified attbi. I was quite surprised to see Gnutella show up on my firewall log today, and it has been constant ever since.

please define pinging/hacking my computer.

This morning, when I woke up and hit the puter to do some work, my firewall log popped up and told me that an unsolicited computer tried to access mine. It said it was using Gnutella. This continued about everyone 4 minutes or so and is still going on, with the above ip. I spent the morning on the phone with att..they take forever...here is an example of the log...

2002/06/21 12:55:01 12.239.146.24:2327 (12-239-146-24.client.attbi.com) 65.32.40.132:6346 Gnutella

It has truly been annoying.

I be no expert on this, but it seems that
someone who runs a gnutella servent has your
IP address in it's queue. This might happen if:

1) You ran a gnutella servent in the recent past.
2) You are on a dialup and someone who had your
IP address in the recent past was running a
gnutella servent...

I.E. Someone's gnutella thinks that you are running gnutella. Happens all the time to me.
I ignore it. A ping is not a Hack and a Hacker
is not a Cracker. (although a Cracker will ping
first to locate you.) If your machine has
it's doors closed & secure, you are safe.

If your doors are open, gnutella is the least
of your worries.........

cheers
jd

It is normal that you got a lot of alerts while you are connected to the Gnutella net...

These are port scans, pings etc. nothing really serious...

Morgwen

I am behind a firewall and have other security software, so I'm not worried about that, but I would like to know how to stop this. I have never used Gnutella before (not Morpehus or anything else). For some things I am doing I need to keep my firewall log up, and every 4 minutes I get this "ping" or whatever. However it works, it is a nuisance.

Morgwen, I was not connected to the Gnutella net...that's the problem...

AFAIK there is no way...

Perhaps there is a way to filter the results with your firewall (if you have a good one), but I am no security expert...

Morgwen

so, even if you don't have this "Gnutella," they can just interfere with your computer just cause you are online? And do it all day?
no wonder there is are pro and con people for this thing.

There are two possibilities:

First you disconneted short time ago. Your IP is still in the caches and the people try to connect!

Or somebody tries to resume his download, do you have a fixed IP or dynamic? If you have a dynamic one did it change after you disconneted?

Morgwen