Dear security-basic members I am a complete newbie at this and know I have sent several questions and thank everyone for their replies, I tried almost every reply that I physically could on my machine to resolve problems and learnt a lot, I do have a question to ask though am not sure if it politically correct to ask this group or not but here goes (I don't want to be kicked off as I am learning a lot here):
Since joining the group I was going to save a lot of the interesting emails on my hard drive for future reference and also to try out once I get a new pc, but have discovered that I get a lot of problems with some emails I receive and my pc (windows 98 SE) just does strange things especially outlook. What happens is that if I keep the emails overnight or log off and then log on a few hours later I keep getting fwouts or zonealarm keeps stopping packets entering or exiting, so I delete the emails then have to wipe the empty space with pgp before all is correct and my outlook starts working again and no more pings etc for quite a while, the internet connection works ok - it is on but refuses to budge ie unable to open websites etc and I have to reboot, I use three different ISPs as depending on the time how fast they are, cos it starts doing strange things too ie like me being unable to open IE5, ftp not working ie unable to connect to my server to upload or download etc. Now my question is I do use somethign called analyzer (mentioned in one of the emails) but it refuses to save anything unless it is very small and just stalls my pc so have to reboot). I also use scanner and visual zone but how do I detect anything that may be coming in by emails? I did check a header on one email and it had what I'd call hieroglyphics in it, but do not keep a log of which emails cause the trouble as I don't know cos I now just read quickly and delete. Can anyone help re how to detect strange things coming in? I did do a port scan as suggested under dos and got the following, though the scanner said that only port 139 was open. Plus can I also ask what is fwroute then visualzone says service=laplink? This may seem trivial but I would like to keep some of the emails which are really interesting so have started to save a few as .txt now, but how do I find which ones have strange things in them that makes my pc go... Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign Address State TCP 0.0.0.0:1051 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:500 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 62.64.139.168:137 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 62.64.139.168:138 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 62.64.139.168:139 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING UDP 0.0.0.0:500 *:* UDP 62.64.139.168:137 *:* UDP 62.64.139.168:138 *:* Proto Local Address Foreign Address State TCP 1051 :0 LISTENING TCP 500 0 LISTENING TCP :137 :0 LISTENING TCP :138 :0 LISTENING TCP :nbsession :0 LISTENING UDP :sytek *:* UDP :nbname *:* UDP :nbdatagram *:*
