Shoutbox

Ok.

Windows xp SP2 has its own built in firewall.
Protects you against most stuff. So most cases people use SP2 with its firewall(in fact is pretty good before sp2 i use to use sygate personal firewall. use to pick up intusions all the time after sp2 went on it picked up nothing. so 3months of testing i removed it and now only use windows xp with sp2. Built in firewall)


What can hacker do?

Well dial phone numbers charge them to you?(maybe not sure if that can be down via boardband /cable maybe just dial up as it uses your phoneline number. Boardbrand is ADSL uses different line not going out over same line as u make phone calls.)

Your machine can be come spam server sending out x amount of e-mails a minute. Which in return will get your ISP's mail server blacklist.(everything gets bounded back or straight to spam boxes).

Can also result in your internet getting turned of by your ISP. At least until you fix your issue or your told to switch to different ISP.

but generally nothing much to harm you lol. Can't damage your pc. can't really do anything just screw it up and send out thousands of emails all day long lol


If your using it. that would ean all your data, usernames and password can be stolen. banking details, paypal, cerdit card details all that rubbish,)